Zero Down-time - relational databases
Continuous Deployment is the act of automatically deploying an application every time the build is successful. I am currently working with a development team that is working towards continuous …
Continuous Delivery
Automated refactoring for library updates
After watching Clang MapReduce – Automatic C++ Refactoring at Google Scale I was struck with the idea that this could help with the upgrade problem. Almost every application uses libraries. Those …
AgileDC - Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Yesterday I presented a talk entitled Introduction to Continuous Delivery at AgileDC. The audience was great and the room packed which is always a recipe for success. I really enjoyed talking about …
Agile DC
I am really syched about talking at AgileDC tomorrow. The topic of my talk is an Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Create MySQL database with Capistrano
I was playing about with Capistrano over the weekend. I wanted to automate the deployment of a Rails application to my server. The server was (I thought) just about ready to accept the app but I did …
Rake db:migrate MySQL gem dependency
If you have already added gem ‘mysql2’ to your Gemfile but get a message saying that it is missing when you try to migrate Make sure that you have installed libmysql-ruby sudo apt-get install …
Optimising build times
I just came across this post and want to remember it so posing here. http://doublebuffered.com/2009/02/11/optimizing-build-times-for-large-c-projects/. I am most interested in the uplift in …
Server Rebuild - Part II
So after having the server nicely set up and ready for configuration I could not resist just ‘getting on with it’. I had grand plans to plan it out and record everything (good practice) but each step …
Cross post: A Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines
Sam Newman has just published a Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines which makes interesting reading. It will be interesting to see where the concepts take us in the next few years.