# Production

Concept · [Cloud, hosting and security](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud)

Also called: prod, live, live site, production environment

The live version of your app that real customers use. [Teams](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsoft-teams) keep separate [environments](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/environment), often called staging and development, where they can try changes without affecting customers.

**For example:** A new checkout page is tried out on [staging](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/environment) first. Once it works there, it goes to production.

## Connects to (10)

- [Deployment](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/deployment): Putting the latest version of your app onto the live servers where real users can reach it.
- [Testing](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/testing): Checking that software does what it should, before your users find the problems for you.
- [Hosting](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hosting): Renting space on a server so your site or app can be reached on the internet at all hours.
- [Environment](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/environment): A separate copy of a system used for one purpose.
- [Permission request](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/permission-request): The pause where an agent asks before it takes an action its permission mode does not allow on its own.
- [Feature flag](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/feature-flag): A switch in the code that turns a feature on or off without shipping new code.
- [DevOps](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/devops): The practice, and job, of combining software development with running it in production: automating builds, tests and deployments and…
- [Graceful degradation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/graceful-degradation): Designing a system so that when one part fails, the rest keeps working in a simpler way instead of breaking completely.
- [Observability](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/observability): Being able to see what a running system is doing through its logs, metrics and traces, so a team can tell when something goes wrong and why.
- [Braintrust](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/braintrust): A platform for evaluating and monitoring AI products.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/production