Capstone ops lab
**Production readiness gate** — metrics, flags, and recovery before you call the capstone shipped.
Reviewed July 2026 · interactive lab
1Try it yourself
Playground
Capstone ops gate
Before demo day — metrics, flags, and recovery must be real.
Latency + groundedness alerts wired
2Read & reflect
Recap
#What you just did
You matched SLO alerts, feature-flag kill switches, and DR drills to capstone ship requirements.
Read
#[Production readiness](/reference/production-readiness) checklist
[ ] SLO alerts on latency + groundedness (slo-lab / eval-metrics-lab)
[ ] Kill switch on risky features (feature-flags-lab)
[ ] Liveness + readiness probes (health-check-lab)
[ ] Secrets in manager, not repo (secrets-rotation-lab)
[ ] Load test or spike script (load-testing-lab)
[ ] Backup + restore drill (disaster-recovery-lab)
[ ] Runbook + on-call handoff (runbook-lab / on-call-lab)
[ ] Postmortem template ready (postmortem-lab)
Use it
#When you'd use this
- Final week before portfolio demos
- Team capstone reviews with a mentor
- Converting class project to hosted side project
Watch out
#Watch out
Checking boxes without testing — run one game-day drill or it does not count.
Try next
#Try this next
Open /capstone and mark every ops layer you have validated.
3Spark check