Great software is released software! Today’s post is about how to release software to production. First, we will cover the required steps before landing a pull request to the main branch. Build is green Linter is green All unit tests are passing Pull request code reviewed and approved
I want to emphasize the importance of having good observability and monitoring for engineer driven deployments. I've seen it happen again and again (and I've made this mistake) that people deployed things without keeping an eye on the dashboards, or even having proper metrics in place to begin with. In our deployment guidelines we've added as step #1, bring up all the dashboards that need monitoring and keeping an eye on, then proceeding with the deployment.
I want to emphasize the importance of having good observability and monitoring for engineer driven deployments. I've seen it happen again and again (and I've made this mistake) that people deployed things without keeping an eye on the dashboards, or even having proper metrics in place to begin with. In our deployment guidelines we've added as step #1, bring up all the dashboards that need monitoring and keeping an eye on, then proceeding with the deployment.