Playbook
Production
We live in a magical modern era where many problems have already been solved for us. We focus on the core product as much as possible and outsource operations as much as possible to external services.
This saves time and money. We can get started using those services in minutes, and pay a service tens or hundreds of dollars per month instead of paying developers thousands or tens of thousands.
We often create a Google spreadsheet for our clients, listing the monthly cost, description, and credentials of each of the products' external services. It includes line items like GitHub, Heroku, SendGrid, New Relic, and Airbrake.