Must-Haves Before You Call Your Application Production-Ready

Is your app ready for your users?

Tarun Jadhwani 🎶
Awesome Sauce

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Production-ready application by Luke Chesser on Unsplash

As developers, we want to create an application that our users would love using. To achieve this we keep thinking of new ideas and adding new features to our app. We lose track of how a small chat app has grown into a huge social networking app. That is why, as soon as we realize that we have put in a lot of time and effort for the pilot — with the first chance we ship this app to production. But in this hustle, we forget asking ourselves a very important question.

Is my application production ready?

Surely this question is very subjective, and the answer varies from developer to developer & organization to organization. Some would even argue that I’ve tested my application end to end — from all user flows to the last button click to ensure its expected outcome. But is that all you need? No! I know this would hurt but, there is one critical aspect still missing. You have ensured that the application is working for you at say 12.30 PM from XYZ city. This does not guarantee that the application will work for every user coming from any part of the world at any given time. Now how do you achieve this? Here are 6 simple must-haves that will help you achieve this, without which your application is still not…

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Tarun Jadhwani 🎶
Awesome Sauce

DOE in fintech startup, a pragmatic person who loves photography, travel, and origami. Writes about technology, security and life hacks.