Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers SE Radio 643: Ganesh Datta on Production Readiness
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Nov 20, 2024 Ganesh Datta, co-founder and CTO of Cortex.io and a former Principal Software Engineer at Mission Lane, dives into the world of production readiness. The conversation highlights the evolving standards of production readiness, especially in microservices. Ganesh discusses the importance of checklists, automated tools, and collaboration between SREs and platform teams. He emphasizes the need for transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement, while proposing innovative approaches to enhance service reliability and user experience.
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Microservices and Production Readiness
- Production readiness gained prominence with microservices.
- Microservices brought team autonomy, but also inconsistency in operational excellence.
Monoliths vs. Microservices
- Monoliths had release processes, but microservices introduce the challenge of consistent practices across teams.
- Production readiness addresses this by ensuring consistent standards across all software.
Production Readiness at Mission Lane
- At Mission Lane, Ganesh Datta helped implement production readiness standards after a monolith to microservices transition.
- Standardizing logging, monitoring, and alerting improved incident response and developer experience.