Best practices

This section gathers the trade-offs to know to get the most out of Ecosystem in production. It complements the functional documentation: it does not explain how to use a feature — the Guides do — but when and why to use it a certain way.

What you'll find in this section

Page	Trade-off covered
Environment management	Ordering and marking environments for a safe deployment cycle (DEV → STAGING → PROD).
Organization with Apps and Tags	Structuring Apps, tags and naming for readable mapping and search.
Dictionary management	Centralizing per-environment variables and choosing between dictionary and secret.
Authentication method management	Centralizing an authentication scheme and securing secrets.
Data mapping	Transforming data between systems: JSONPath extractors vs Code node, variable naming.
Error management	Anticipate, capture, analyze and resolve incidents.
Usage patterns	Choosing the right integration pattern (scheduler, import, events, API exposure).

Go further

• Getting started
• Node types reference
• Trigger types reference

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See also: User guide