Maintainability
Explore the concept of maintainability in distributed systems by understanding how to make them easy to operate, straightforward for developers to grasp, and extensible to accommodate future features and use cases. This lesson covers key practices like monitoring, documentation, self-healing mechanisms, and good coding standards, helping you ensure long-term system stability and scalability.
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The last topic we’ll cover in this chapter is maintainability.
What is maintainability?
A maintainable distributed system should be:
- Easy to operate and keep running
- Easy for developers and newcomers to understand the system
- Should easily be extensible, if further use cases and features are to be incorporated
Maintainability is the combination of the above three properties in a distributed system. Let’s discuss this briefly.
Easy to operate
If a distributed system is difficult to operate, it will be increasingly difficult to keep it running. As a developer, it is certainly crucial to put sincere effort into ensuring the operability of your system.
In the industry, there are several standard practices that you should consider, namely:
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Adding visible monitoring and logging: Add monitoring and logging mechanisms to your system, and make them visible via specific ...