Checklist for release readiness in production deployments

Before a release goes to production, teams must confirm build integrity, environment parity, rollback plans and stakeholder sign-off. This thread outlines a pragmatic checklist for engineering teams: functional verification, security scans, performance smoke tests, deployment runbooks, data migration verification, monitoring and alerting validation, and a clear cutover/rollback decision authority. Use it to run repeatable pre-release gates that reduce last-minute firefighting and outages.

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