You don’t need a complicated cloud setup to be production-ready. You need a disciplined baseline: reproducible deployments, visibility into failures, and sensible security defaults.
CI/CD that teams can trust
- Automated builds and deploys to staging and production
- Basic checks: type safety, linting, tests where valuable
- Environment parity and secrets management
Observability is not optional
If you can’t see what’s happening, you can’t maintain reliability. Start with structured logs, error tracking, and a few key dashboards.
Minimum baseline
Error tracking + uptime checks + request latency dashboards. Add more as the product grows.
Practical guidance
Security defaults
- Principle of least privilege for access
- Audit logs and alerting for critical actions
- Routine dependency updates and patching