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Fast and Flexible Deployment
Meg Green, Genentech
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know which cool new tool will bring more value than it consumes.
Reveling in the fun of our fast-paced, developer-driven era requires creativity, a twisted sense of delight, and…automation. Genentech's research organizations depend on fast, frequent inception-to-use work. To enable this, we provide a basic tomcat engine, via templates, that is automagically rolled out to the host environments. Our developers adopted automated deployment (Jenkins). Further, we set developers loose with write-access to configs and chase changes using pretty-ok scripts and version control. While evolving this system, (without yet using one of those new-fangled config management systems) we've learned something about how we could do it better. Nothing is perfect, but it's worth doing the imperfect and improving.
Experienced in infrastructure and systems, Meg has worked in large corporations and startups, leading teams in platform integration and software development. Meg spent the past four years working on software infrastructure in Genentech Research and has recently embarked on a new advanture at life360.com
author = {Meg Green},
title = {Fast and Flexible Deployment},
year = {2014},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
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