Designing Applications For Uncertain Times:  Scale, Distribution, Agility, Intelligence and Resilience

The uncertainty caused by COVID-19 resulted in challenges for businesses worldwide. COVID-19 has provided many examples of why designing applications for uncertainty is important and the potential repercussions of not implementing a flexible, resilient, future-proof application design.

Moving forward successfully in the post-COVID-19 landscape requires a carefully considered and well-executed application infrastructure design strategy. Accounting for uncertainty in application design requires the following core design elements; scalability, distributed systems, agility, automation and intelligence, and resilience.