Production Ready Software

What does ‘Production Ready’ really mean for a software engineer.

Core Tenants

1. Stability and Reliability
2. Scalability and Performance
3. Fault Tolerance & Disaster Recovery
4. Monitoring
5. Documentation

Recommendations

1. Create a set of guidelines for the software definition of “Production Ready”
2. Automate the checking and scoring of the guideline.
3. Set expectations for the achieving the guidelines.

References

Production-Ready Microservices by Susan J. Fowler