Explore practical strategies for deploying distributed systems in production environments in this GOTO Chicago 2018 conference talk. Delve into the challenges of productionizing distributed systems, including handling failures, debugging performance issues, and implementing effective logging and monitoring. Learn about tactics for managing partial availability, tracing, profiling, and release management. Discover approaches to avoid coordination problems, implement backpressure mechanisms, and utilize datacenter schedulers. Gain insights on collaboration, data minimization, and the importance of considering ethical implications in system design. Acquire valuable knowledge from an experienced distributed systems engineer to improve your ability to build and maintain robust, scalable systems in real-world production environments.