Thursday, November 5, 2009

High availability through parallel cells

High availability sites have unique requirements that are not easy to solve. However, one solution does revolve around using multiple cells in production. This allows for easily taking a cell out of rotation to make changes. Then when the cell goes live and if the changes didn't work it is just as easy to take the cell out of rotation again. I've used this strategy at many, many 24 x 7 sites.

Here is the link to my latest article on multiple cells.

The only problem that arises is if things like database schemas change in the backend which also means application code changes. Those kinds of changes require more work and possibly parallel schemas until the transition is complete.

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