If you are a Release Engineer, System Admin or Support Engineer you have definitely come across a requirement where you have to apply patches to the target systems be it production or non-production. I’m assuming that you are using some automated system to manage the patches i.e applying them and reverting them. In this blog …
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Initial thoughts for a patch framework for a java based web project
Although this blog was not in the pipeline of feb month but I got a requirement to build a patch framework for a java based web project, so along with building this framework I thought of writing this blog as well so that I’ll get idea from other people as well. First of all I …
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Automated Database Update Or Rollback
One of the important step during release is doing database update and rollback in case something goes wrong, usually people perform this operation manually. In this blog I’ll talk about how we can automate this process by following some convention. Here I’m taking mysql database as an example we can have same conventions for other …
Release Strategy for Java Web based projects
In this post I’ll be discussing about the 2 strategies that we can follow for releasing a Java based web project. A project can be primarily released in two ways Incremental Release Full Release Incremental Release is done in big projects which has multiple modules & usually few modules gets updated between two releases. It …
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Devops Done Right 