Tag Archives: deployment

One-Jar

I was trying to fix the build of a project last night. It used to unpack several dependent jar files before repackaging them along with the project code. How ugly. Then I remembered about one-jar, which lets you package things … Continue reading

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The Deployment Elephant

Tim O’Reilly covers much of what’s been crossing my mind recently in Operations: The New Secret Sauce. The really successful people are those who (like Google) have solved, and are continuing to solve the really hard problem of deployment. There … Continue reading

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SwitchTower

I’ve spent some time this evening playing with SwitchTower. It’s a tool for deploying Rails applications. It’s just perfect for sending what’s on my test environment (Mac) up to my server (FreeBSD). Not only that, it’s relatively simple to get … Continue reading

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