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Revenue-critical deployment paths
Storefront, checkout, admin, and worker changes need explicit paths and rollback expectations.
- Storefront deploy flow.
- Backend and admin deploy flow.
- Worker and queue deploy flow.
- Rollback or redeploy policy.
Reference guide
Infrastructure checklist for custom e-commerce teams.
Custom commerce stacks combine storefronts, admin tools, workers, integrations, payments, and operations. This checklist helps identify what needs to be stable before growth or agentic engineering scales.
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Audit
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Guardrails
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Deployment Paths
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Preview Envs
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Team Handoffs
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Operating Layer
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Integration safety
Payments, inventory, ERP, warehouse, and marketing systems need testable environments.
- Webhook test workflow.
- Sandbox credentials.
- Integration-specific logs.
- Retry and dead letter policy.
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Data and service layer
Commerce operations depend on database, cache, and job reliability.
- Postgres backup policy.
- Redis or queue visibility.
- Migration review process.
- Resource usage monitoring.
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Team and agent readiness
Contractors, internal developers, and agents need safe access to move quickly.
- Scoped repo access.
- Environment variable templates.
- Preview environments.
- Documented production boundary.