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Operational and organizational principles for running applications in production with focus on stability, scalability and observability.
Application Operations defines the organizational and technical practices for running modern applications in production, covering deployment, monitoring, incident response, scaling, configuration management, and developer-operations collaboration. The focus is on stable availability, fast recovery, and continuous runtime optimization. It is closely aligned with observability and reliability.
Average time to recover after an incident.
Share of failed requests or transactions over time.
Measurement of resource usage for scaling decisions.
Prometheus collects metrics used for alerting and capacity planning.
Canary strategy reduces release risk by gradual rollouts.
Postmortems improve response processes and result in concrete runbook updates.
Introduce telemetry and monitoring instrumentation
Implement CI/CD pipelines with canary or blue/green strategies
Define runbooks, SLAs and escalation processes
Implement automation for repetitive operational tasks
Establish continuous monitoring and postmortems