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Prepare for and Deliver Into Production

Production changes everything. Your customers will use your software in so many untested ways that you’ll get lots of slow requests, errors, and unexpected behavior in your software. To fix those, you need insights about what causes all these problems. So it’s vital to prepare for that.

One part of that preparation is to implement monitoring in the form of logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts. First, you should ​Favor Logging Over Console Output​, which we’ll explain to you in a moment. Next, you should set up a central place where all your logs go. If the logs are also searchable and you can analyze them, compute metrics, and visualize them in a dashboard, that’s perfect. Then, you might be able to ...