Patchling

Your company’s website is alive: it’s hungry for new things, it catches bugs, it gets old. You have three years (three minutes) to keep it healthy.

The life of a piece of software

  1. AnalysisDeciding what it should do, and for whom.
  2. DevelopmentWriting the code, often on top of components built by others, like PHP.
  3. TestingChecking that it works, and that changes don’t break everything else.
  4. ReleaseThe site goes live.
  5. Maintenance — you are hereThe longest phase: bugs, updates, cleanup, new features.
  6. End of lifeThe site gets rebuilt, or stays online with nobody looking after it.
  • Tap the bugs 🐛 to squash them.
  • Spend your team’s energy on the four actions below. It recharges on its own.
  • Listen to your site: it tells you when something’s wrong.
  • Halfway through, a critical vulnerability hits. Be ready.