Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. But along the way, something strange happened.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Outside the world of hypothetical examples, its more important to make continual progress than to build the ultimate design. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.
www.subelsky.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. Theres a drop-in Rails plugin but this service could be used with any language.
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