diff --git a/deployment/.env b/deployment/.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f66f48..0000000
--- a/deployment/.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-; Email for Let's Encrypt SSL certificate expiration notifications
-EMAIL=
-
-; Postgres database connection
-DB_HOST=
-DB_USER=
-DB_PASS=
-DB_NAME=
-
-; Discord integration
-WARNINGS_WEBHOOK_URL=
-SCORES_WEBHOOK_URL=
-
-; osu!api
-OSU_API_KEY=
-OSU_CLIENT_ID=
-OSU_CLIENT_SECRET=
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deployment/docker-compose.yml b/deployment/docker-compose.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c1e3da7..0000000
--- a/deployment/docker-compose.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-version: '3'
-
-services:
-
-  traefik:
-    image: "traefik:v2.9"
-    container_name: "traefik"
-    restart: always
-    environment:
-      EMAIL: ${EMAIL}
-    command:
-      - "--log.level=ERROR"
-      - "--api.insecure=false"
-      - "--providers.docker=true"
-      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
-      - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
-      - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.to=websecure"
-      - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.scheme=https"
-      - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
-      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.tlschallenge=true"
-      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=${EMAIL}"
-      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
-    ports:
-      - "443:443"
-      - "80:80"
-    volumes:
-      - "./letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
-      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
-
-  postgres:
-    image: groonga/pgroonga:3.1.6-alpine-15
-    container_name: postgres
-    restart: always
-    environment:
-      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USER}
-      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASS}
-    volumes:
-      - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-    command: >
-      -c work_mem=4MB
-    shm_size: '128mb'
-
-  redis:
-    image: redis:alpine
-    container_name: redis
-    restart: always
-
-  nise-backend:
-    image: git.gengo.tech/gengotech/nise-backend:latest
-    container_name: nise-backend
-    environment:
-      SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: postgres,discord,updater
-      # App configuration
-      OLD_SCORES_PAGE_SIZE: 5000
-      # Origin
-      ORIGIN: "https://nise.moe"
-      # Postgres
-      POSTGRES_HOST: ${DB_HOST}
-      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USER}
-      POSTGRES_PASS: ${DB_PASS}
-      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_NAME}
-      # redis
-      REDIS_DB: 4
-      # Discord
-      WEBHOOK_URL: ${WARNINGS_WEBHOOK_URL}
-      SCORES_WEBHOOK_URL: ${SCORES_WEBHOOK_URL}
-      # osu!api
-      OSU_API_KEY: ${OSU_API_KEY}
-      OSU_CLIENT_ID: ${OSU_CLIENT_ID}
-      OSU_CLIENT_SECRET: ${OSU_CLIENT_SECRET}
-      # Internal API
-      CIRCLEGUARD_API_URL: http://nise-circleguard:5000
-    restart: always
-    labels:
-      - "traefik.enable=true"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise.rule=Host(`nise.moe`) && PathPrefix(`/api/`)"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise.middlewares=nise-stripprefix"
-      - "traefik.http.middlewares.nise-stripprefix.stripprefix.prefixes=/api/"
-      - "traefik.http.services.nise.loadbalancer.server.port=8080"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise.entrypoints=websecure"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise.tls.certresolver=myresolver"
-    depends_on:
-      - postgres
-      - redis
-
-  nise-circleguard:
-    image: git.gengo.tech/nuff/nise-circleguard:latest
-    container_name: nise-circleguard
-    environment:
-      OSU_API_KEY: ${OSU_API_KEY}
-    restart: always
-    volumes:
-      - ./nise-data:/app/dbs
-
-  nise-frontend:
-    image: git.gengo.tech/gengotech/nise-frontend:latest
-    container_name: nise-frontend
-    restart: always
-    labels:
-      - "traefik.enable=true"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise-frontend.rule=Host(`nise.moe`) && PathPrefix(`/`)"
-      - "traefik.http.services.nise-frontend.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise-frontend.entrypoints=websecure"
-      - "traefik.http.routers.nise-frontend.tls.certresolver=myresolver"
-
-volumes:
-  postgres-data:
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 6f2b22e..f869e4e 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <div align="center">
 <img src="keisatsu-chan.png" title="keisatsu-chan~">
-<p><strong><h3>/nise.moe/ project</h2></strong></p>
+<p><strong><h3>/nise.moe/ project</h3></strong></p>
 <p>
 an osu!std website that tracks possible cheaters.
 </p>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ you can read the individual readme files for each module to see how to run them
 
 ### production
 
-you can check out the deployment folder to see how the website runs in production. it uses docker-compose to handle the containers, and traefik as a reverse proxy.
+we manage the production stack in a separate `infra` repository. it uses docker-compose to handle the containers, and traefik as a reverse proxy.
 
 # contributing