Introducing service standards: level setting production-readiness for every engineering team
At the outset of a company’s move to microservices, one of the first challenges teams will face is trying to ensure that all of its new services meet an engineering-wide, agreed upon set of standards before being promoted to production. This usually takes the form of a Production Readiness Checklist stored somewhere in a wiki or git repository, keeping microservices that aren’t operationally ready for live traffic from causing unnecessary reliability issues.