Resilience is a virtue. It helps one overcome challenges and distressing or trying times without losing enthusiasm or hope and recover quickly. Resilience in humans has to be built. It is essentially a sum of multiple traits that can be developed and acquired. The world of software products also calls for resilience. Resilience distinguishes a robust software product from an also-ran. But what exactly is resilience in software products? And most importantly what goes into making resilient software? Planning to build a Resilient & Scalable software Product? Talk to us at https://forgeahead.io/lets-talk/

1. How to Build Resilient
Software Products
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2. • In a market that is rapidly changing, product which keeps pace with the market,
emerging & changing customer needs, and what the competition is offering is the
product that finally get a thumbs-up from the customer.
• Ease with which software products can scale up & remain relevant to always
changing user needs and market demands defines resilience in software products.
Overview
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3. • The product target audience
• What needs are you fulfilling for this target audience
• For the customer, life was going on without your
product – so how is the customer currently fulfilling
his/her need?
• What is the competition offering?
• Where is the “GAP” which is the sweet spot for you to
create value?
• What tasks the product needs to help accomplish?
• How the product fits into the business narrative?
To ensure you build a resilient software product, Identify:
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4. • Product Roadmap – It is imperative to plan the
future product road map – this plan will
necessarily incorporate future features &
functionalities to keep the product both relevant
and resilient.
• Product Architecture – has to be designed to
enable ease of scale up, feature addition and
increase in user base by multiple times.
• Product Build - Building software products
keeping evolution in mind ensures that
applications are not fragile and do not break in
the face of change.
Some things to pay close attention to when building resilient software products
are:
1. Product Evolution
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5. • The capacity of the application to withstand failures
determines its resilience. Hence, building resilience
demands focus on all levels of the architecture.
• Determining how to bake in the infrastructure and
network, the design considerations, data storage
demands, and the like become important factors.
• Since distributed apps are now commonplace and
these contain multiple layers of infrastructure,
networks, and services, it is essential to account for all
dependencies and ensure availability at all times.
2. Product Architecture - Designed to withstand failures
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6. ○ Technical debt can cause the death of
resilience in software products.
○ While it is essential to follow good coding
and development practices to keep
technical debt in check, a less than
optimal software architecture just
compounds this debt.
○ Software architecture takes into account
all the aspects of performance, security,
scalability, functionality, and ensures that
the system parts can communicate
seamlessly with each other.
3. Reducing Technical Debt
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7. The objective of following good coding and
development practices is to make software
bullet-proof and invulnerable.
Some of the elements that contribute to resilience
in software products-
• High focus on QA
• Avoiding too many conditions using variables
• Evading too many unused variables
• Keeping a deep focus on refactoring
4. Development and Code Quality Practices
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• SaaS Product Development
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• Quality Assurance | DevOps
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