Posted by Andrew Phillips around lunchtime: March 8th, 2010
In a recent post, XebiaLabs‘ CTO Vincent Partington discussed some important organizational topics you will want to address while introducing deployment automation using Deployit.
Preparing your organization is, of course, crucial to getting maximum possible benefits from deployment automation. A few technical considerations also apply when introducing Deployit, and here we’d like to go into these so that you can be sure your infrastructure is ready when it comes to carrying out your first fully automated deployment.
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Posted by Vincent Partington in the early morning: February 25th, 2010
Last month XebiaLabs released the Personal Edition of Deployit. Now that people have been able to experience in a simple environment how Deployit can work for them, you might wonder how to start using Deployit for real in your development and operations environments. In this blog and its sequel we will go over the things we’ve learned when starting to use Deployit. We will also be covering this subject (and a lot of other subjects!) in our upcoming Deployit webinar series.
There are organizational and technical consequences to introducing a deployment automation product. But let’s focus on the organizational aspects first. These pointers will help you get started with implementing Deployit in your organization in the right way.
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Posted by Jeroen Borgers at around evening time: January 20th, 2010
Previous time I blogged about the last step of the seven steps, step 7: Share the responsibility for the whole chain, a non-technical but rather a communication and behavior thing which I found crucial for success. We now have reached the end of this series and I’ll sum up the topics we’ve dealt with and draw some conclusions. (more…)
Posted by Jeroen Borgers in the late evening: November 18th, 2009
Last time I blogged about performance tuning based on evidence, the tuning cycle and some best practices. This time I’ll blog about the last step of the seven steps: sharing the responsibility for the whole system chain.
When an incident happens in production, this usually means stress. A performance problem in production often leads to finger pointing. (more…)