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title: Production Guidelines
description: Operational guidance for stable, repeatable production deployments.
order: 83
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# Production Guidelines

Use these guidelines to keep DurableStack workloads predictable in production.

## Baseline runtime posture

- Use a durable shared database provider for distributed workers.
- Set a unique `WorkerName` per process/container.
- Keep poll jitter enabled in multi-worker environments.
- Keep retention enabled with explicit retention windows.

## Deployment and rollout

- Run store migrations before serving normal traffic.
- Roll out workers gradually and monitor claim/failure trends.
- Validate recurring schedule behavior after deployment.

## Reliability practices

- Keep handlers idempotent.
- Use conservative max attempts for non-idempotent side effects.
- Prefer retry backoff for unstable external dependencies.

## Observability and alerting

- Alert on failure-rate spikes and missing worker heartbeats.
- Track retry volume and queue depth over time.
- Validate hosted observability connectivity if enabled.