Comments on: Upgrade Pains http://tensixtyone.com/perma/upgrade-pains Rants of Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kyle Maxwell http://tensixtyone.com/perma/upgrade-pains/comment-page-1#comment-512 Kyle Maxwell Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:31:01 +0000 http://tensixtyone.com/?p=562#comment-512 Did you schedule the maintenance outage during a change window? Then she can't complain... Did you schedule the maintenance outage during a change window? Then she can’t complain…

]]> By: Paul Roberts http://tensixtyone.com/perma/upgrade-pains/comment-page-1#comment-511 Paul Roberts Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:09:59 +0000 http://tensixtyone.com/?p=562#comment-511 Ha Ha....from someone who daily pains are about sorting out the shit from stuff going into production systems, can I add: 1. Buy some more hardware so you have two production like environments- one for Dev and one for QA 2. Apply the upgrade to Dev first and check for any immediate tech bugs 3. Apply to QA and perform a full end to end integration test and get the other half to sign it off 4. Agree when to apply the upgrade to Production; in this case when you customer is not expecting to record/watch anything critical. 5. Agree the back out strategy should it all go wrong Simples..... Ha Ha….from someone who daily pains are about sorting out the shit from stuff going into production systems, can I add:
1. Buy some more hardware so you have two production like environments- one for Dev and one for QA
2. Apply the upgrade to Dev first and check for any immediate tech bugs
3. Apply to QA and perform a full end to end integration test and get the other half to sign it off
4. Agree when to apply the upgrade to Production; in this case when you customer is not expecting to record/watch anything critical.
5. Agree the back out strategy should it all go wrong

Simples…..

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