Chapter 9. Deployment, Logging, and Monitoring

"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

- Sun Tzu

We need a very strong deployment strategy before going live to production and starting to earn revenue. Lack of planning always results in an unforeseen emergency, which leads to drastic failures. That's what we are going to do in this chapter. Now that we are done with our development stuff and have added double checks by testing and providing documentation, we are now going to target our Go Live Phase. We will see all aspects involved in deployment including current trending terms—continuous integration, continuous delivery, and the new serverless architecture. We will then see the need for logs and how to create a custom centralized logging solution. Moving further, we will look at Zipkin—an emerging tool for logging in distributed systems. In the end, we are going to look at monitoring challenges. We will look at two famous tools—Keymetrics and Prometheus.

This chapter covers...