Dazed & Confused

This is a pattern I’ve seen in many hosting situations, and ended up debating a little while back. It’s the one-DNS-name-for-a-machine-and-lots-of-services-on-it pattern. Among the services is typically a SubVersion repository, Maven repository, Maven proxy, Hudson, Wiki and and maybe some other stuff you use when developing. When migrating to new hardware the discussion [...]

Tags: DNS, migration, operations, soa

Martin Fowler has an article about Incremental migration. Just goes to show that by dividing problems into smaller increments you will get benefits in most situations. It is important to have the mindset to always look at how you can break a task into simpler parts. Not as easy always, but important.

Tags: agile, fowler, incremental, migration