Chapter D · 4 of 4~10 min

Capstone ops lab

**Production readiness gate** — metrics, flags, and recovery before you call the capstone shipped.

Reviewed July 2026 · interactive lab

Paths & resources for this lesson

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

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