Set the three safety nets before your first production bug
Watch, avoid re-breaking, roll back. The three moves nobody prepares before hitting publish, each costing one hour exactly once.
Why
The publish button is not a finish line, it is a starting line. You spent three weeks building. You deploy. Two days later a user writes that it does not work, and you know neither where, nor since when, nor how many people are affected. You spend the evening clicking through your own product hoping to reproduce it. What is missing is not talent, it is instrumentation. With no alerting, you learn about outages by message. With no tests, you fix one thing and break another without seeing it. With no rollback, a bad deploy sentences you to fixing under pressure instead of returning to the…
When
Phase: right before the first public deploy, or right after the first incident that cost you an evening. Audience: the person who built it alone and will also maintain it alone. ✅ You know it is your kit when You learn about bugs from user messages, never from an alert. You click through your product by hand after every deploy to check nothing moved. A bad deploy scares you, because you have no…
Tools included
- Sentry
- Playwright
- Vercel