Chapter 53

Deployment and monitoring — staging, smoke tests and rollback

Liveness and readiness, a database, a run-once migration and the API in Docker Compose, releases named by commit SHA, a smoke test after every deploy, a bad release with a two-second rollback, and errors in Sentry with their release and route.

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Python for AI Career is a Pro course

Liveness and readiness, a database, a run-once migration and the API in Docker Compose, releases named by commit SHA, a smoke test after every deploy, a bad release with a two-second rollback, and errors in Sentry with their release and route.

The Python course is free and complete — this course is not made of anything taken out of it. Every chapter of a Pro course runs the full six steps:

  • Encounter — Meet the problem before the definition — what cannot be done without this.
  • Understand — Build the mental model: what Python actually does, and why this way.
  • Worked — A complete example with its real output — run, not imagined.
  • Predict — Say what happens before running it. A wrong prediction teaches more than a right one.
  • Apply — Write it and run it on your own machine. Reading it is not the same as doing it.
  • Stretch — Ten questions from easy to hard. The last ones are difficult on purpose.