Deploying LangGraph: From Local Prototype to Production-Ready Microservice

The article explains how to transition a local LangGraph agent prototype into a production-ready deployment using LangGraph Cloud or self-hosted infrastructure. It introduces Persistent Graph State Hydration via Checkpointers (PostgreSQL/Redis) to survive restarts and handle multiple users, and draws an analogy between deployed agent nodes and microservices with StateGraph acting as an API gateway.