This will be a checklist to run over all microservices—manually or in an automated way.

A Production-Ready Service Is Stable and Reliable#

It has a standardized development cycle.
Its code is thoroughly tested through lint, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Its test, packaging, build, and release process is completely automated.
It has a standardized deployment pipeline, containing staging, canary, and production phases.
Its clients are known.
Its dependencies are known, and there are backups, alternatives, fallbacks, and caching in place in case of failures.
It has stable and reliable routing and discovery in place.

A Production-Ready Service Is Scalable and Performant#

Its qualitative and quantitative growth scales are known.
It uses hardware resources efficiently.
Its resource bottlenecks and requirements have been identified.
Capacity planning is automated and performed on a scheduled basis.
Its dependencies will scale with it.
It will scale with its clients.
Its traffic patterns are understood.
Traffic can be re-routed in case of failures.
It is written in a programming language that allows it to be scalable and performant.
It handles and processes tasks in a performant manner.
It handles and stores data in a scalable and performant way.