jargon

Platform & DevOps·Running it: capacity, failure and recovery

before it can take real traffic, someone checks it has alerts, a runbook, a rollback, an owner and a restore that has been tested.

Operational readiness review

Also calledproduction readiness review, ORR, go-live checklist

A structured check that a service is genuinely operable before it goes live: ownership, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, dependency limits, rollback and recovery. It is the mechanism that stops the gap between working code and a supportable service being discovered during the first incident. Its value depends on being a short list of things that have actually caused incidents here, rather than a long generic form.

Commonly confused with