Building an application is only part of the development process. Real-world applications must also be deployed, monitored, maintained, and scaled to support growing numbers of users and business requirements.
In this chapter, students will learn how production applications are prepared, launched, monitored, optimized, and maintained using modern development practices.
The chapter covers deployment fundamentals, hosting environments, production databases, monitoring systems, performance optimization, application scaling, debugging, maintenance workflows, and production best practices.
By the end of this chapter, students will understand how to move applications from development environments to production systems and manage them successfully in real-world business environments.