Production Readiness
Most startup products can be made to "work" in a local environment.
Far fewer are ready for production:
- Real users sign up and forget passwords.
- Traffic spikes at the worst possible times.
- Deployments fail in the middle of launch windows.
- Data gets corrupted, duplicated, or lost.
- A small bug becomes a customer-facing incident.
This section explains the work required to move from local demo to durable product.