Part IV · Production
Chapter 16
Deployment, Scaling and Cost
What changes when the system is not yours to restart at will — mostly mechanisms built earlier for other reasons, now answering to someone at three in the morning.
Deliverable: A production posture: cost attribution, canaried rollout without a deploy, SLOs that are not uptime, and runbooks that work.
What's inside
10 topics
- 16.1What Changes in Production
- 16.2Cost Attribution and Budgets
- 16.3Rollout, Canary and Rollback
- 16.4Autoscaling on the Right Signals
- 16.5Multi-Region and Data Residency
- 16.6Provider Incidents and Runbooks
- 16.7Observability and SLOs
- 16.8Capacity Planning
- 16.9The On-Call Experience
- 16.10Three Deployment Architectures Compared
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