Deploying applications is one of the most frequent tasks that a DevOps engineer might encounter. It is important to have a good, fast deployment, but before that, it is important to have a deployment in the first place. Deploying smaller and larger applications are alike in a lot of ways. One major way in which they differ is the lengths you must go through to maintain availability on larger applications. We won’t be discussing that in this section. We will instead just try to get an API up for adding two numbers. Like I said, let’s keep it simple and begin creating a new Replit Repl and start coding in it.