Launch readiness
An MVP proves product-market fit; production engineering proves operational resilience. Pre-launch hardening prevents customer-facing crashes and data loss on Day 1.
Audit authentication boundaries, SQL injection risks, cross-site scripting (XSS), and CORS rules.
Add missing indexes, configure connection pooling, and verify automated point-in-time recovery (PITR).
Set up real-time error tracking (Sentry), performance monitoring, and automated health checks.
An MVP has to demonstrate that the idea works. A production system has to keep working while nobody is watching it, which is a different engineering problem with a different cost.
Nearly everything on a readiness list exists to answer one question: when this fails at three in the morning, how does anyone find out, and how bad is it by the time they do?
In the order that matters if you can only do some of it.
Founders preparing for launch usually worry about traffic. In practice the first production failures are almost never volume — they are a certificate expiring, a third-party service changing an interface, a disk filling with logs, or a scheduled job that silently stopped weeks ago.
Monitoring catches all of those. Scaling work catches none of them, and is usually premature at launch.
The uncomfortable question is who fixes it at the weekend. An MVP has an implicit answer — whoever built it, if they happen to be free — and that stops being acceptable the moment customers pay you.
This does not have to be expensive. A modest retainer with a named engineer and an agreed response time is far cheaper than the alternative, which is finding somebody unfamiliar with your system during an outage.
Backups, with one restore actually tested. Everything else on a readiness list is recoverable; lost data is not.
Usually not. First production failures are almost never traffic — they are expired certificates, changed third-party interfaces and jobs that stopped silently. Monitoring catches those; scaling work does not.
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