--- title: EP81: How Companies Ship Code to Production | daily.dev description: This article covers the process of shipping code to production, translating a URL into an IP address, and the use cases of an API gateway. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ep81-how-companies-ship-code-to-production-zafdi7jda twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EP81: How Companies Ship Code to Production | daily.dev og:description: This article covers the process of shipping code to production, translating a URL into an IP address, and the use cases of an API gateway. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ep81-how-companies-ship-code-to-production-zafdi7jda og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zafDi7JDA.png og:image:alt: EP81: How Companies Ship Code to Production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EP81: How Companies Ship Code to Production **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 4 min read · 208 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary This article covers the process of shipping code to production, translating a URL into an IP address, and the use cases of an API gateway. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fabooy961** · 1 upvotes > well summarized <3 > >  **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > Illustration is awesome! **@congdoanbui** · 0 upvotes > beautiful! **@devking980** · 0 upvotes > Explained very well, and Pictorial explanation is best part. **@nikhilkraleti** · 0 upvotes > awesome ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 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