DevOps & CI/CD

Production Deployment Safety Checklist Matrix

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Flowchart showing production safety checklist: checks backward compatibility, tests recent backup existence, evaluates feature flag wrapping, and halts or deploys.
Flowchart showing production safety checklist: checks backward compatibility, tests recent backup existence, evaluates feature flag wrapping, and halts or deploys.
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What it shows

  • Ensure database migrations are backward-compatible before shipping new code
  • Validate point-in-time recovery backup snapshots prior to any stateful change
  • Decouple deployment from release using feature flags to enable instant rollbacks

The takeaway

Never deploy code and breaking state changes together: decouple schema, binaries, and feature release.

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