మీరు జీరో-డાউన్‌టైమ్ డిప్లాయ్‌మెంట్‌లను ఎలా సాధించారు?

GOAL: deploy a new version with NO user-facing downtime (always-available service):
  → never take the whole service offline to deploy
  → always have healthy instances serving while updating others
  → handle in-flight requests gracefully (don't drop them mid-request)
→ Combine several techniques (below).

✓ DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY — rolling, blue-green, or canary (never all-at-once downtime):
  → rolling: update instances gradually (others keep serving)
  → blue-green: switch traffic to the new environment instantly
✓ LOAD BALANCER + HEALTH CHECKS → route traffic only to healthy/ready instances;
  new instances join only when READY (readiness checks)
✓ GRACEFUL SHUTDOWN → draining: stop sending new requests to an instance, let it FINISH
  in-flight requests, THEN stop it (handle SIGTERM) → no dropped requests
✓ BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE changes → old and new versions coexist during the rollout
  (API and DATABASE compatibility — expand-contract migrations)