release-it

# Release It! Framework Framework for designing, deploying, and operating production-ready software. The software that passes QA is not the software that survives production — production is hostile, and systems must expect and handle failure at every level. ## Core Principle **Every system will eventually be pushed beyond its design limits.** The question is not whether failures happen, but whether your system degrades gracefully or collapses catastrophically. Production-ready software is not just correct — it is resilient, observable, and operates through partial failures without human intervention. ## Scoring **Goal: 8/8.** Score a production system by the Quick Diagnostic: **1 point per row answered "yes"** across the 8 checks (timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, zero-downtime deploy, deep health checks, correlated telemetry, load-tested past peak, failure injection). Bands: **7-8** = every integration point is bounded, isolated, observable, and deploy/release are decoupled; **4-5** = some patterns present but ≥3 diagnostic rows fail (e.g. unbounded retries, shared pools, shallow health checks); **≤2** = relies on the happy path with no breakers, no capacity model, no failure testing. Always state the current score, the failing rows, and the specific fix for each. ## The Release It! Framework Six areas that determine whether software survives contact with production: ### 1. Stability Anti-Patterns **Core concept:** Failures propagate through integration points ...