Production-grade .NET on Azure from day one

The gap between a demo and a production system is mostly the stuff you can't see in the demo: what happens at 3am when a dependency is slow, a deploy goes wrong, or traffic spikes. We build that in from the first commit.

The non-negotiable baseline

• Structured logging and distributed tracing wired to Application Insights before the first feature.
• Health checks and readiness probes so the platform can route around a sick instance.
• CI/CD with automated tests gating every deploy, with no manual releases.
• Configuration and secrets in Key Vault, never in the repo.

Why this order matters

Retrofitting observability onto a system that's already in trouble is the worst time to do it. When the pipeline, tracing, and health checks exist from day one, every subsequent feature inherits them for free, and the first production incident is a five-minute diagnosis instead of a five-hour one.

You don't rise to the occasion in an incident; you fall to the level of your instrumentation.

Operability is a feature

We treat the ability to run, debug, and evolve a system as a first-class deliverable. That's the difference between software that ships and software that keeps running.