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9. Deploying into Production

Fernando Doglio1 
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La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay
 

As the last step in your normal development cycle, you’d want to deploy your brand new APIs into a production system. This might sound obvious to you (then again, maybe not), but just because it works on your computer doesn’t mean it’ll work for your customers, so when deploying into such a specific environment like Production, there are some key aspects you’d want to consider, and we’ll review those in this chapter.

Finally and to close this chapter, we’ll go over Shipit and PM2—a very interesting pair of tools to help you keep track of your production deploys. ...

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