Backend with Node.js

🚀 Production and deployment

Take a server to production with guarantees: per-environment configuration (12-factor), logging and observability, and resilient deployment with graceful shutdown.

What you'll learn

Configure the app per environment with variables (process.env) following 12-factor
Implement structured logging (JSON) and expose observability metrics
Expose a health check (GET /health) and perform a graceful shutdown on SIGTERM
Deploy with containers, process managers, and horizontal scaling of stateless instances

Lessons

Configuration: 12-factor and environmentsConfig in the environment, not in the code. Secrets out of the repo. Logging and observabilityStructured logs (JSON), metrics, health checks, and traceability. Deployment and resilienceGraceful shutdown (SIGTERM), process managers, containers, and scaling.

Practice this module in the app

DevPath is a hands-on course: you read the theory here; in the app you put it into practice with exercises that really run, offline.

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