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What Else Does It Take to Make an App Production Ready?

Learn the best practices to make your Go app production ready.

Writing a few lines of code and making something work is one thing, but it takes much more to build an app that's good. What defines a good app? Well, that could vary for the users of the apps and the builders (or developers) of the app.

What makes an app good?

For a user, an app should have the following qualities:

  • It should be intuitive and easy to use.

  • It should be fast.

  • It should work as expected without issues.

  • It should be secure.

For a developer, it should have the following qualities:

  • It should be maintainable.

  • It should be testable.

  • It should be easy to extend and add features.

  • It should be able to identify issues and give alerts when it finds any.

  • It should provide sufficient information to debug.

  • It should send stats related to traffic and usage.

So how can we incorporate some of these attributes into our app? Good architecture is essential ...