Production Deployment Checklist

Pre-deployment checklist to ensure safe and successful production releases.

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Review code changes

Critical

Run all tests

Critical

Update documentation

Create backup

Critical

Notify team members

Deploy to staging first

Critical

Verify monitoring and logging

Perform smoke tests

Critical

Update runbooks

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