Tech Stack Evaluation
Evaluating Tech Stack Resilience for Disaster Recovery
This prompt helps engineering teams evaluate their tech stack’s resilience and readiness for disaster recovery. It focuses on assessing fault tolerance, backup systems, and recovery processes to ensure business continuity during outages or failures.
Responsible:
Engineering/IT
Accountable, Informed or Consulted:
Engineering
THE PREP
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Collect information on current fault tolerance features, backups, and disaster recovery processes.
Identify key systems and applications critical to business operations.
Define acceptable recovery objectives (RTO and RPO) for the organization.
THE PROMPT
Help evaluate the resilience of [specific software startup]’s tech stack to ensure effective disaster recovery and fault tolerance. Focus on:
Fault Tolerance Analysis: Recommending evaluation steps, such as, ‘Assess whether current infrastructure and architecture can handle component failures without significant downtime.’
Backup and Redundancy: Suggesting strategies, like, ‘Evaluate the effectiveness and frequency of backups, and ensure critical systems have redundancy in place.’
Disaster Recovery Plan: Including preparedness measures, such as, ‘Review existing disaster recovery plans for completeness, including RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets.’
Testing and Simulations: Proposing validation methods, like, ‘Conduct regular failure simulations, such as chaos engineering or disaster recovery drills, to test system resilience.’
Recommendations for Improvement: Recommending upgrades, such as, ‘Suggest specific tools or practices, like automated failover systems or distributed backups, to enhance disaster recovery capabilities.’
Provide a comprehensive framework to evaluate and improve the tech stack’s resilience, ensuring business continuity and robust disaster recovery. If additional details about current systems or recovery requirements are needed, ask clarifying questions to refine the evaluation.
Bonus Add-On Prompts
Propose strategies for incorporating multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments to improve resilience.
Suggest methods for automating backup and recovery processes across critical systems.
Highlight techniques for measuring the ROI of resilience improvements.
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SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE
Focus on specific resilience challenges, like cybersecurity risks or large-scale outages.
Include tips for integrating resilience metrics into performance monitoring tools.
Propose ways to use open-source tools for cost-effective disaster recovery improvements.
Highlight tools like AWS CloudFormation or Azure Site Recovery for automated failover.
Add suggestions for documenting resilience practices to align with compliance standards.
WHEN TO USE
To ensure system readiness for outages, cyberattacks, or other disruptions.
During IT audits or compliance reviews requiring disaster recovery plans.
When scaling infrastructure to improve fault tolerance and continuity.
WHEN NOT TO USE
For non-critical systems with limited recovery requirements.
If the organization lacks resources to implement resilience improvements.