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5 Ways To Improve Your App Stability

9/25/2018

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Dependable Apps


Applications for smartphones and the web are kind of the business card of the modern world. If you don’t have an app, it makes a lot of sense to get one. Apps should be useful, they should be easy to download, and they should be reliable.

Achieving this can be easier to say than to do; much impacts stability. Following are five tips to help you strike the best balance for continuing forward stability over time.




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1. Run Regular Performance Tests

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is becoming more pervasive, and many applications must interact with information from such devices. Additionally, cloud computing is changing the nature of the internet. It’s entirely possible that a decentralized web is on the horizon.

Couple with that user fluctuations, and it becomes necessary to continuously test the performance of applications in order to ensure some new factor in the digital environment hasn’t hampered operations. Even if there aren’t any issues of this kind, users are going to increase, ideally; stressing your app’s performance.

You should always be at a level where your app is able to sustain much more traffic than you have in order to provide you a cushion in the event of swift and unforeseen traffic changes.

2. Have An Effective Log-Framework In Use

Stackify.com offers various solutions and some sage advice as pertains to logging frameworks. You’re going to have errors and bugs no matter how well you design your app. Until human beings are perfect, anything they create will have such issues. Perhaps “the singularity” will change that (probably not for the better); until then, you’ve just got to catch the little errors and fix them.

Be careful not to introduce new errors once you’ve fixed old ones. Ensure the way you manage the log includes protocols which introduce regularity. You want to catch all issues before they pose a problem for clients, and even fix bugs ahead of their discovery as possible.

3. Always Be Troubleshooting

Perhaps you’ll get your app to 99% accurate, bug-free operations. That 1% is still going to be an issue at some point. So accept this reality, and simply establish continuous operational improvement strategy.

Run through the app, see where interface is a little rough around the edges and smooth that out. Constantly effect little positive changes like this, and you can expect increased reliability.


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4. Do Not Neglect Beta Testing

Beta-testing isn’t just for right before you make an app’s launch public. Because you’ve always got to fix errors, and you should regularly be troubleshooting, you’re going to have to beta-test new functionality.

Sometimes you’ll have a new feature, sometimes you’ll have changes in the way your app performs its function at a core level. These things will need tested before you set them out into the digital world to act, for all intents and purposes, autonomously.

5. Upgrade Your App At Regular Intervals

You want to use the latest programming software for reasons of convenience and operational similitude in reference to the market. AppOptics.com offers some choice words of advice pertaining to programming solutions like Python; you can explore them at this web page.

Because of the aforementioned technological flux which characterizes the industry, you’re going to need to ensure you’re always on the cutting edge. In the sixties, Gordon Moore noticed a relationship to miniaturization and computational ability, noting a yearly doubling in ability.

It is generally accepted that this kind of thing does happen, though for varying reasons Moore’s Law is now reckoned at about eighteen months. What this means is that every eighteen months, the computational ability of tech on planet Earth doubles. Now that will trickle down through the world at different rates; some countries are more developed than others.

You don’t need to have a total upgrade/refurbishment of your app every eighteen months to keep pace. What you can do is continuously upgrade using processes as outlined in this writing. In such a way small changes will continue to optimize what you’ve produced such that it remains essentially contemporary in terms of software. From there, you just want to introduce new upgrades to retain style and agreement with other software and hardware changes in the market. You will need to perform total upgrades on occasion, the more frequent the better; provided such strategies are affordable.

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Predictable Sustainability

The only thing worse than having no app is having a bad app. If those who you direct outreach at decide to interface with the applications you’ve designed, only to find they’re clunky and unusable, that’s not going to bode well. As a matter of fact, they’re likely to resent you for wasting their time.

You’re really going to put a “bee in their bonnet”, as the saying goes, if you have a 95% functional app which includes 5% of “territory” that characterizes some larger percentile of your demographic, and is essentially defunct.

Things need to work as advertised, so if you’re doing something groundbreaking, ensure you cover all your bases as comprehensively as possible. Even if you’re not doing something groundbreaking, there is ample reason to take deliberate effort aimed at facilitating secure, reliable application operations.

Work with agencies and resources that can help give you direction, and ensure you’re always troubleshooting. Run performance tests, beta test, upgrade, and properly log errors. If you approach the management of your app in such a way, it should function at peak capacity continually. Even in the event of emergency, you will be able to rely on your body of work to sustain the difficulty.
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