November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
5h 5m
English
Content preview from Production-Ready Microservices
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Appendix A. Production-Readiness Checklist
This will be a checklist to run over all microservices—manually or in an automated way.
A Production-Ready Service Is Stable and Reliable
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It has a standardized development cycle.
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Its code is thoroughly tested through lint, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
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Its test, packaging, build, and release process is completely automated.
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It has a standardized deployment pipeline, containing staging, canary, and production phases.
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Its clients are known.
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Its dependencies are known, and there are backups, alternatives, fallbacks, and caching in place in case of failures.
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It has stable and reliable routing and discovery in place.
A Production-Ready Service Is Scalable and Performant
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Its qualitative and quantitative growth scales are known.
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It uses hardware resources efficiently.
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Its resource bottlenecks and requirements have been identified.
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Capacity planning is automated and performed on a scheduled basis.
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Its dependencies will scale with it.
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It will scale with its clients.
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Its traffic patterns are understood.
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Traffic can be re-routed in case of failures.
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It is written in a programming language that allows it to be scalable and performant.
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It handles and processes tasks in a performant manner.
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It handles and stores data in a scalable and performant way.
A Production-Ready Service Is Fault Tolerant and Prepared for Any Catastrophe
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It has no single point of failure.
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All failure scenarios and ...
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