Web Scale Architecture Study Group: Large Scale Deployments

So to get started, this Stack Overflow Q&A gives a good overview of the parts of a deployment system:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485160/what-are-common-practices-for-deployment-of-large-scale-systems

Next up, is a fairly long article about how Facebook does full life cycle deployments. Lots of ‘fluff’ at the beginning and end, but the bulk of the article is interesting:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering/
 

Dan Nemec recommended this article to get an introduction to Automation tools:

http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2012/05/01/for-business-people-chef-and-vagrant-explained/

I was able to find some examples of patterns around risk aversion in deployments:

http://www.braintrustgroup.com/2012/continuous-delivery-part-3/

Some more details on using BitTorrent? for deployment (Don’t bother with the video, the blog post describes the idea well):

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys.html
 

Finally, a reminder that cloud deployments are very different:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/12/netflix-developing-deploying-and-supporting-software-accordi.html
 

Thanks to Ken Giles and Dan Nemec for suggesting articles about this topic.