A PRODUCTION-READY SERVICE IS SCALABLE AND PERFORMANT

Its qualitative and quantitative growth scales are known.

It uses hardware resources efficiently.

Its resource bottlenecks and requirements have been identified.

Capacity planning is automated and performed on a scheduled basis.

Its dependencies will scale with it.

It will scale with its clients.

Its traffic patterns are understood.

Traffic can be re-routed in case of failures.

It is written in a programming language that allows it to be scalable and performant.

It handles and processes tasks in a performant manner.

It handles and stores data in a scalable and performant way.

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