Think Prod Up Front: Shifting Left on Production Excellence
summary
Argues teams shorten feedback loops by combining progressive delivery with feature flags and observability driven development, deploying from cron hourly and aiming for build times under 10 minutes. Describes using identical builds across production, a dogfood environment and a kibble environment to test flags before customer rollout. Recommends SLOs (example: 99.5% home‑page loads over a 30‑day window), error budgets (1,000 failures/month on 1M requests at 99.9%) and burn‑rate alerts to decide when to experiment or pause.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to production excellence
- 2:29Progressive delivery and safety
- 3:52Observability fundamentals
- 5:38Observability driven development
- 7:23Testing in production environments
- 9:08Aligning engineering with business
- 10:55Service level objectives explained
- 14:05Error budget and risk management
- 16:53Taking first steps toward excellence
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