Shipping

Pre-ship A/B test verification: ensure experiment variants are configured, defaults are safe, and the debug panel override works.

After any operation touching 5+ files, run a verification pass for stale references before marking complete.

Keep main always releasable via an automated build-test-deploy pipeline; releasing is a business decision, not a manual scramble.

Pre-deployment backup verification: ensure backups run before migrations, WAL files are handled during restore, and integrity checks pass before shipping.

Your dependencies are your attack surface. Manage them actively.

Provision a disposable per-PR environment from IaC, seed it with throwaway data, test against it, and auto-destroy on merge or close.

Pre-ship feature flag verification: ensure all new features are gated, defaults are correct, and flag keys are documented.

Run production incidents with defined command roles and severity tiers, then close them with blameless, tracked-to-completion postmortems.

- Use the single-project MSIX packaging model

Decouple deploy from release and limit blast radius with canary, rings, blue-green, flags, and health-based automated rollback.

Pre-deploy migration verification: ensure version tracking, idempotency, sync compatibility, and rollback strategy before shipping schema changes.

Ship a PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest declaring data collection and required-reason API usage, or App Store submission is rejected.

One logical change per commit. A change may touch multiple files if they are part of the same concept. Commits should...

Emit an SBOM and signed SLSA provenance per build, then verify both signatures and provenance at deploy time.

Pre-deploy transport security verification: TLS 1.2+, HSTS enabled, cipher suites audited, certificate pinning validated.

Integrate to one shared trunk in small daily increments behind feature flags, keeping trunk releasable instead of trading rigor for long branches.

Ship native ARM64 builds for Windows on ARM; adopt Native AOT and trimming only when a measured need justifies their constraints.