Once it's all deployed and sufficiently tested, flip the new environment variable in prod to use the new logic in the /articles handler. Monitor throughput and latency, check logs for errors and ensure there's no customer reports.

If appropriate, give a heads up to customers that we're making an infrastructure change in realtime.

After we verify it's stable, clean it up.

• Deploy runbook created and shared with the team
  • plan of action
  • problems that might arise
  • how to troubleshoot
• Production deploy
• Monitoring passively
• Write/ author the clean up ticket for grooming
• Add kafka healthchecks

Acceptance criteria

• Runbook tested in dev