I have been warming up to the way Netflix does their deployments. Each update is a full image, packaged as an Amazon Machine Image, ready to be inserted into an auto-scaling group. This technique can be abstracted to any VM-style cluster however.
Since each images is pre-made, and ready to run on boot, *all* dependencies are pre-installed. There is no risk of NPM being down during a deployment, or a dependency version update occurring between testing and deployment. If there is an error during the image creation, it can easily be re-run. There is no risk to the production environment. You gain all the safety of having explicitly control over dependencies, but can keep generated code out of git. I realize this is a rather large leap in deployment style, but I thought I would share. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
