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Deployment Automation: The End of Plug-n-Pray
Speaking to a customer recently, I was told: "Honestly, our favorite thing about moving to AnthillPro is that we've moved beyond 'Plug-n-Pray' deployments. You know, many of our deployments were so scary we'd have a bunch of people in the office ... |
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Ending the deployment failure blame game
We see it a lot when we visit IT departments. Development, QA, Middleware and Operations are pointing fingers at each-other again and again when another deployment fails. "The code is broken. Fix it." comes from the frustrated deployer. The ... |
Apr 5, 2010 |
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Conway's Law explains why we have manual deployments
As we covered in our recent webcast on automated deployments, manual deployments are pretty obviously inferior to automated deployments. And yet, as an industry we still have a lot of manual deployments. This counter-intuitive fact demands explanation. ... |
Feb 3, 2010 |
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Recorded Webcasts
We've made our last two Webinars available for playback at your convenience. Death to Manual Deployments: Manual deployments are slow, inconsistent and fail in production. Other than that, they're fine. Listen to Jeffery Fredrick and Eric Minick as ... |
Jan 18, 2010 |
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AnthillPro Tips for Efficient Deployments
Lean teams aggressively identify waste in all their processes and act to strip it out. The transmission of files as part of the deployment process is often wasteful. This article looks at two elements contributing to slow downs. First, redeploying ... |
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Webinar: Release Management Best Practices — Balancing Agility and Control
Tomorrow (Wednesday Sept 9th) at 2 pm EDT / 11 am PDT Maciej Zawadzki and Damon Poole are going to be talking about Release Management Best Practices: Balancing Agility and Compliance. The origin of this talk is the conflict we see in development ... |
Sep 8, 2009 |
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Webinar: Improving Development Productivity with Static Analysis and Enterprise Continuous Integration
Tomorrow (Wednesday Sept. 2nd) I'll be presenting a webinar with Alen Zukich of Klocwork on Improving Development Productivity with Static Analysis and Enterprise Continuous Integration. Personally I think combining static analysis with continuous ... |
Sep 1, 2009 |
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Webinar: Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy
Update! A recording of this webinar is now available: Watch Now Next Wednesday on August 19th Eric and I will be presenting a webinar on Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy. Our inspiration for the topic is that while we've seen budgets ... |
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Manage Offline Deployment Servers with Selective Redeploys
Distributed deployments offer a wide variety of benefits to your applications lifecycle. While automating this process saves time and reduces errors, it would be impossible to plan for every setback. The following entry discusses how to determine which ... |
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Rolling Deployments with AnthillPro 3.6
A common question from our users has been, “How do I set up a rolling deployment?” The basic challenge is to run some deployment process on a number of machines, but not all at the same time. One or two machines should be upgraded at a time ... |
Feb 6, 2009 |
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Speeding Tests by Distributing Them
Seeing Geronimo 2.0 pass the Sun TCK tests brought a smile to the faces of the team here -- our guys helped the Geronimo team achieve shorter test cycles by distributing tests with AnthillPro. So what’s the trick to distributing tests? |
Jun 7, 2007 |
