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Shipping to Production

Gergely Orosz · The Pragmatic Engineer Free Intermediate

Orosz maps the full spectrum from YOLO shipping (change it in prod and watch) to heavy multi stage verification, and explains which stage of company each one fits. That framing lets you place your three person team honestly and add only the next layer, not five. It is the clearest guide to deciding how much verification is enough right now. The full spectrum is free to read before the piece turns to paid subscribers.

  • Verification layers should grow with the cost of a bug, not all at once
  • Local checks and CI on every pull request are the cheap early wins
  • Most heavy release process exists to protect large user bases you do not have yet
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The question it answers

  1. How should our shipping process change once we hire our first engineer and it is no longer just me pushing to production?

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