This article discusses the process of taking a GraphQL API to production using Hasura Cloud. It covers various aspects such as performance, security, and reliability in building apps with GraphQL. The text delves into potential issues related to these aspects and how Hasura helps overcome them. Key points include efficient queries, scalable subscriptions, response caching, scaling database (Postgres), authentication and authorization, defense mechanism, collaborator management, monitoring, health check, distributed tracing, availability, and infrastructure management.