Release It!
Production-ready software patterns for stability and resilience
Build production-ready software using Michael Nygard's patterns for stability, resilience, and operational readiness. This skill equips your AI agent with circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, and anti-patterns to avoid when deploying systems that must stay running.
What your agent learns
Circuit Breakers
Detect failing dependencies and stop calling them temporarily — prevent cascading failures across your system.
Bulkheads
Partition system resources so a failure in one area cannot exhaust resources needed by other areas.
Timeouts & Retries
Set aggressive timeouts on every integration point and use exponential backoff with jitter for retries.
Stability Anti-Patterns
Avoid integration point failures, cascading failures, unbounded result sets, and slow responses that block threads.
Deployment & Operations
Design for transparency with health checks, metrics, and logging. Plan for zero-downtime deployments and rollback.
Try these with the skill installed
Add circuit breakers and bulkheads to our microservice communication layer using release-it skill
ResilienceAudit this service for stability anti-patterns using release-it skill
Architecture reviewDesign a deployment pipeline with zero-downtime and automatic rollback using release-it skill
DevOpsAdd health checks, metrics, and structured logging to this service using release-it skill
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