Harden the platform for real-world reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Security hardening (secrets, abuse controls, auth robustness)
- Performance and caching strategy for high-traffic read flows
- Resilience patterns (retries, circuit breakers, background processing stability)
- Full observability stack (metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts)
- CI/CD quality gates and release readiness standards
- Rate limiting and abuse protection for assistant and commerce endpoints
- Caching plan for catalog/recommendation read paths
- Operational dashboards and alert thresholds
- Expanded test suites (load/smoke/regression/security checks)
- CI pipeline updates with build-test-lint gates
- API meets target latency and error-rate goals under load
- Key security and operational risks are covered by controls
- Deployment and rollback process is documented and repeatable
- Project can be presented as MVP-ready backend with production discipline