Original air date:
Thur., Oct. 27, 2011

Mastering the Complex Application Deployment

Many development, test, and project managers see the deployment process as a cruel puzzle and a risky business. Not only do components often go to different servers, interdependencies between components and tiers demand that everything aligns perfectly. A single mistake often results in delayed releases - or worse, system failures.

Complex application deployments place strain across the organization. The resulting high anxiety around releases, finger pointing across the organization, and internal pressure for fewer releases frustrate development and operations even as the business is demanding more. The good news is that your organization can get deployment challenges under control.

Eric Minick explains in this web seminar:

What process automation can and cannot do to help deployments
How to consistently promote complex applications through environments
Strategies to ensure the whole system is deployed with the right versions
When and when not to trust test results

You will also learn how to create more consistent and repeatable deployments through new tools and deployment strategies based on automation and scripting.

This presentation will not include a product demo. If you are interested in seeing uDeploy in action, you should request a personalized demo.

Eric Minick, UrbanCode Lead Consultant

Eric Minick is a lead consultant at UrbanCode where he helps customers get the most out of their build, deploy and release processes. He has 8 years of automation experience throughout the application life-cycle in roles as a developer, test automation engineer, and support engineer. Eric has been at the forefront of Continuous Integration for 8+ years and has worked on three generations of UrbanCode's products.

About UrbanCode

UrbanCode enables organizations to deliver software to production servers faster (physical, virtual, or cloud); resulting in decreased time to market, and accelerated pace of innovation through end-to-end software delivery. uDeploy, our Deployment Automation product, establishes repeatable, error-free, scalable application deployment processes, and provides visibility into what version is where. uBuild, our Build Management product, establishes repeatable and traceable build processes for large organizations with hundreds or thousands of developers, and provides visibility into organizational best practices; allowing development teams to scale while maintaining quality. Our approach is to harness the innate capabilities of computers to handle repetitive tasks in an error-free manner, thus freeing employees to engage in critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving.