Operational Excellence Considerations

Application maintainability is one of the main aspects that a solutions architect should consider during architectural design. Every new project starts with lots of planning and resources at the beginning and teams spend the initial months creating and launching your application. After the production launch, the application needs several things to be taken care of to keep operating. You need to continually monitor your application to find and resolve any issues on a day-to-day basis.

The operations team needs to handle application infrastructure, security, and any software issues to make sure your application is running reliably without any problems or issues. Often, enterprise applications are complex, with defined Service-Level Agreements (SLA) regarding application availability. Your operations team needs to understand business requirements and prepare themselves accordingly to respond to any event.

Operational excellence is all about...