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Backend service architecture
Flow: API Gateway → Workers → PostgreSQL/Redis.

Core approach

Production systems need observability, repeatable releases, and failure control. Recommended references: Django deployment docs and 12-factor app .

Release checklist

  1. Validate health endpoint and migrations.
  2. Run post-deploy smoke checks.
  3. Confirm logs and metrics are flowing.

What to track

  • API latency and status codes;
  • integration errors and timeouts;
  • background job duration;
  • input validation failures.
Good architecture is not about a perfect diagram. It is about safe and predictable evolution.

Code snippet

from django.http import JsonResponse

def health(request):
    return JsonResponse({"status": "ok", "service": "andrewdev-site"})

Deployment options

Approach Pros Cons
VPS + Docker Control and flexibility More operational effort
PaaS Fast setup Platform limits
Sample reliability metrics
Sample SLA improvement after queue and cache tuning.

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