On Tue, 20 May 2014, N.J. Thomas wrote:
Now would be a good time to reflect on Fred Brooks' awesome essay "No
Silver Bullet". There is no one single technique that will make all your
problems go away -- BUT there are a number of things you can do to
mitigate against the re-imaging incident that happened at Emory. You
want to refine your current process and keep refining it as time goes
on. You'll never reach utopia, but after a couple of iterations, these
kinds of mistakes should fall unto the class of "unlikely to happen" at
your organization. I hope.
keep in mind that sometimes your tools can cause you problems as well.
Even with all the things mentioned in this thread, you can still run into
problems. I've seen cases where the bad deployment caused no problems for days
(and yes, this is at a place with pretty good monitoring)
One thing that's important to keep in mind is that things will happen, no matter
how many layers of protection you put in place (if nothing else, too many layers
of protection will slow you down to the point that some critical patch can't get
deployed fast enough :-)
David Lang
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