Digital Twin
Production Operations & Maintenance
⚙️ Production Operations
Operations Overview
This Digital Twin system is deployed on Vercel's edge network with automated CI/CD, comprehensive monitoring, and enterprise-grade operational procedures for 24/7 production reliability.
🚀 Deployment Workflow (CI/CD)
Automated Deployment Pipeline
Code Commit
Developer pushes code to GitHub main branch
GitHub Webhook
Triggers Vercel deployment via integration webhook
Build Process
Next.js build, TypeScript compilation, optimization (8-12s)
Edge Deployment
Deploy to 90+ global edge locations automatically
Live Production
Instant go-live at https://digital-twin-vert-nu.vercel.app
Deployment Configuration
- • Platform: Vercel (Next.js 15.5.6)
- • Framework: React 19, TypeScript
- • Build Command: npm run build
- • Deploy Trigger: Git push to main
- • Deploy Time: ~30 seconds
- • Rollback: Instant (one-click)
Environment Variables
- • UPSTASH_VECTOR_REST_URL: Vector DB endpoint
- • UPSTASH_VECTOR_REST_TOKEN: Auth token
- • GROQ_API_KEY: LLM inference key
- • NODE_ENV: production
- • Storage: Vercel secure vault
- • Rotation: Manual (90-day policy)
📊 Monitoring & Alerting
Critical Alerts
- • Service downtime (>1 min)
- • Error rate > 5%
- • Response time > 5s
- • Vector DB connection failure
- • LLM API quota exceeded
Notification: Email + SMS
Warning Alerts
- • Error rate > 2%
- • Response time > 3s
- • Cache hit rate < 70%
- • Concurrent users > 500
- • Memory usage > 80%
Notification: Email
Info Monitoring
- • Deployment success
- • Daily traffic reports
- • Weekly uptime summary
- • Performance benchmarks
- • Usage analytics
Notification: Dashboard
🚨 Incident Response Procedures
Severity 1: Production Outage
Service completely unavailable or critical functionality broken affecting all users.
Response Steps:
- Acknowledge alert immediately (<5 min)
- Check Vercel deployment status dashboard
- Verify external dependencies (Upstash, Groq)
- Rollback to last stable deployment (one-click)
- Notify users via status page
- Root cause analysis within 24h
SLA: Resolution within 1 hour
Severity 2: Degraded Performance
Service functional but slow or intermittent errors affecting subset of users.
Response Steps:
- Investigate monitoring dashboard (<15 min)
- Check load testing results and capacity
- Review error logs and traces
- Apply hot-fixes or configuration changes
- Monitor recovery and performance metrics
- Document findings and mitigation
SLA: Resolution within 4 hours
Severity 3: Minor Issues
Non-critical issues, cosmetic bugs, or minor performance degradation.
Response Steps:
- Log issue in GitHub Issues
- Prioritize in backlog
- Schedule fix in next sprint
- Test fix in development environment
- Deploy via standard CI/CD pipeline
- Verify fix in production
SLA: Resolution within 7 days
💾 Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup Strategy
- ✓Source Code: GitHub (main branch + releases)
- ✓Vector DB: Upstash daily snapshots
- ✓Profile Data: digitaltwin.json in git
- ✓Environment Vars: Vercel secure vault
- ✓Deployment History: Vercel (unlimited)
Recovery Procedures
- →Rollback: One-click to previous deployment
- →RTO (Recovery Time): <5 minutes
- →RPO (Data Loss): 0 (git-tracked)
- →Vector DB Restore: 10-15 minutes
- →Full Redeploy: 30 seconds (new instance)
🔧 Maintenance Procedures
Scheduled Maintenance
Most maintenance is zero-downtime. For critical updates requiring downtime, maintenance is scheduled during low-traffic periods (Sunday 2-4 AM UTC) with 48-hour advance notice.
Zero-Downtime Updates:
- • Feature deployments
- • Bug fixes
- • UI improvements
- • Configuration changes
Scheduled Downtime:
- • Major framework upgrades
- • Database migrations
- • Infrastructure changes
- • Security patches
✅ Daily Operations Checklist
Morning Checks (9 AM)
- Review overnight error logs
- Check system uptime (target 99.8%)
- Verify MCP server health
- Test production endpoints
- Monitor response times (<2s)
Weekly Maintenance (Monday)
- Run load testing suite
- Review weekly uptime report
- Check dependency updates (npm audit)
- Verify vector DB sync status
- Backup environment variables