--- title: 5 steps to build great service architecture and... description: Building resilient service architecture starts with answering three key incident questions: what broke, what depends on it, and who owns it. A five-step... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-steps-to-build-great-service-architecture-and-operational-resilience-cnobihw2z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 steps to build great service architecture and operational resilience | daily.dev og:description: Building resilient service architecture starts with answering three key incident questions: what broke, what depends on it, and who owns it. A five-step... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-steps-to-build-great-service-architecture-and-operational-resilience-cnobihw2z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cnOBiHW2Z.png og:image:alt: 5 steps to build great service architecture and operational resilience og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 steps to build great service architecture and operational resilience **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building resilient service architecture starts with answering three key incident questions: what broke, what depends on it, and who owns it. A five-step framework covers: starting with customer-facing business services, mapping supporting technical services and their dependencies, assigning clear single-team ownership per service, using deployment cycles to define service boundaries, and consolidating operational data into a single source of truth. Good service mapping accelerates incident response, reduces burnout, and increasingly satisfies regulatory compliance requirements. As AI-driven triage becomes more common, the quality of the underlying service map directly determines how well automated systems can respond. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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