Design for operation
Operational excellence can be a great differentiator for your application by providing a high-quality service to customers with minimal outages. Applying operational excellence proactively also helps support and engineering teams increase productivity. Maintainability goes hand in hand with operational excellence. Easily maintainable applications help reduce costs, avoid errors, and let you gain a competitive edge.
A solutions architect needs to design for operation, including how the workload will be deployed, updated, and operated in the long term. Planning for logging, monitoring, and alerting is essential to capture all incidents and take quick action for the best user experience. Apply automation wherever possible, whether deploying infrastructures or changing the application code, to avoid human error.
Including deployment methods and automation strategy in your design is very important, as this can accelerate the time to market for any new changes...
