Jul 07

Edd Dumbill on agile infrastructure for web applications

Tag: Linux, Software Engineering, System Administration, Web Development — Dan @ 10:08 pm

Edd Dumbill posted an interesting article on his blog about his development infrastructure: In search of agile infrastructure for web applications.

He makes extensive use of

  • Ubuntu/Debian cause of their stability and ease of setup.
  • Virtualization with Xen, VMWare and Parallels cause it allows him to run multiple test/staging servers on one piece of hardware. Plus it allows him to scratch and rebuild a server with minimum fuss.
  • .deb packaging his web apps cause it makes deployment and upgrades nice, neat, and easy.
  • SVK or BazaarNG for source control in order to take advantage of their distributed development capabilities and easier merging.
  • avahi for mDNS (also known as Rendezvous / Bonjour / ZeroConf) - to make temporary DNS setup dynamic.

Thanks for sharing Edd ;-)

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