A quick diagnostic to see if your app is ready to ship or if you're about to learn some expensive lessons.
Includes a personalized analysis written by Seth based on 20+ years of engineering and startup experience.
21 questions · ~4 minutes
Question 1 of 21Deployment & Infrastructure
How do you deploy your app?
Question 2 of 21Deployment & Infrastructure
What happens if your server dies right now?
Question 3 of 21Security
Where do your environment variables and secrets live?
Question 4 of 21Database & Data
How do you handle database migrations?
Question 5 of 21Database & Data
What's your database backup situation?
Question 6 of 21Database & Data
When did you last actually verify your database backup restored successfully?
Question 7 of 21Monitoring & Recovery
How would you know if your app went down at 3 AM?
Question 8 of 21Security
Does your app use HTTPS?
Question 9 of 21Monitoring & Recovery
How do you handle errors in production?
Question 10 of 21Deployment & Infrastructure
What does your test coverage look like?
Question 11 of 21Monitoring & Recovery
Can someone other than you deploy and debug the app?
Question 12 of 21Networking & Traffic
Do you have rate limiting on your public endpoints?
Question 13 of 21Networking & Traffic
What's between the internet and your app?
Question 14 of 21Dependencies & Supply Chain
When did you last run a security scan or dependency audit on your app?
Question 15 of 21Dependencies & Supply Chain
How do you manage third-party dependencies?
Question 16 of 21Deployment & Infrastructure
Do you have a staging environment?
Question 17 of 21Security
How do you handle SQL queries in your app?
Question 18 of 21Monitoring & Recovery
What does your logging look like in production?
Question 19 of 21Deployment & Infrastructure
Do you have a rollback plan for bad deploys?
Question 20 of 21Monitoring & Recovery
How often do you actually review your production logs and dashboards - not during an incident, just as routine hygiene?
Question 21 of 21Dependencies & Supply Chain
How do you handle supply chain security for your container images or build dependencies?
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