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.