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Your app is deployed. Users are signing in. Traffic is flowing. Everything is live. Congratulations, give yourself a pat on the back. Okay that's enough. Now it’s time to get back to work because you’ve officially entered the phase where production starts revealing all the decisions you made three months ago, unsure how it would affect you today. Because deploying an app is one half of the job. And, production environments have a way of exposing: This is where operations begin.

A few weeks ago, we shipped cascading replication for PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis on Cloud 66. Customers can now build replication chains: a primary streaming to a middle replica, which in turn streams to leaves. It reduces load on the primary, supports geographic distribution, and stops you from melting your network when you have a large fan-out of replicas all pulling WAL from the same machine. PostgreSQL has supported cascading replication natively since version 9.1, which shipped over a decade ago.

So far in this deployment series, you’ve: Now we arrive at the layer that quietly determines whether your app thrives… or throws mysterious 2am errors. Step 5 is cloud configuration. This is where your application gets its infrastructure, its environment, and its ability to scale without drama.