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4 questions in Cutover Planning.

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A cutover is planned for a Sunday night. What must be prepared beyond the technical steps, and what is the most commonly missing item?

A platform must cut over a critical service. What does a cutover plan need beyond the switching steps?

Alibaba Cloud reported a peak of 583,000 orders per second during Singles' Day on 11 November 2020. Your own platform is far smaller but its annual peak is roughly 40 times a median day and its date is known a year in advance. How does that one fact reshape an eighteen-month migration plan?

What is in a cutover plan besides the steps, and what would you rehearse?