There’s one thing that all of us could easily concur upon: The massive upheaval that software development is undergoing – quite along the lines of being a revolution. Finally. we have reached that tri-junction when operations, development and business teams are coming head to head. It would be hard for us to name a single company – one that is successful at least – that doesn’t explicitly rely on software. This means that the quality of software, its security and efficacy plays a very important role in running an efficient business.
Team work had some promise in it, but sadly, it came with the ensuing momentous costs as well as having arrived at the wrong time. The market was filled with cheaper labor that was inadvertently offshored to countries like India – who were experts at the maintenance of legacy software. Zoom ahead seven years, and we have come to the realization that offshoring isn’t that cost effective anymore, and the business world has changed to become much agiler.
Companies have become far more efficient at handling quick breakthroughs across all of its systems, both on the front as well as the back end. This has to be the extant time to talk about self-healing software and reinvestigating their conceptualization.
No matter what your team structure, you could kick-start your journey with self-healing software by giving your developers more room for innovation, as well as following the steps – as has been enunciated below – to relieve the stress pertaining to maintenance efforts.
1. Identify the ‘Disease” at the Source Code Level
Step one to undergoing the requisite self-healing process involves the process of identification, wherein any code that may make the whole system insecure is to be identified. They are hard to figure out on the front end, due to the fact that they only reveal themselves under pressurized usage by users of the software. MITREs CWE and Consortium for IT Software Quality(CISQ), are community sourced organizations that have developed important guidelines for prodding the quality of software. These systems could help you establish and work-upon a baseline of software quality.
When you are done establishing these measures, the road that needs to be taken next is quite simple: Your team needs to add systematic measurements and have to do trend analysis, weeding out any probable causes for service disruptions and failures. This also sets up the stage for the process of automation, wherein it would be far more easy to predict any impending system failures based on the many that have already been taken cognizance of.
2. Divide and Conquer keeping the Big picture firmly in mind
For teams that have already started work on the implementation of micro service, an act which involves breaking down applications into smaller and easily changeable components, they will find it much easier to carry out the self-healing implementation process. However, all of the systems need to be put together first hand.
If a system-level analysis is used, then it ensures that all of the bad code is weeded out before it makes its way into the system. This could also be thought of as creating an architectural blueprint while undergoing production.
3. Self-healing as a Springboard for Innovation
Self-healing software, believe it or not, could help spring board the echelons of innovation in any organization. The creation of a self-actualized, self-healing software could open the windows for migration to the cloud, due to the fact that it doesn’t follow a set modicum of rules.
This would help your organization save a lot of its time; after all, currently, the act of migration to the cloud requires a distinctive analysis and a rework on the source code so as to ensure that the end result is properly streamlined with the demands of the system. Self-healing software and the ensuing innovation could help prevent business disruptions and aid you to save up on the countless number of lost hours.