I’m headed to NYC today for the Cloud Computing Expo and the RightScale User Meetup 2010.
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my experiences using RightScale and Amazon Web Services to drastically change the way PBS web applications are designed and hosted.
Our foray into cloud computing is really still experimental, but it has already proven to be transformative on a number of fronts… we are now able to provide much more access and control to developers, while supporting a wider variety of technologies, all the while achieving higher availability. A win-win-win situation if you ask me.
The PBS development team is making the leap from Subversion to Git.
So far, it has been relatively painless… We’ve imported a few SVN repositories, maintained the full history, and development continues. But we’re still using Git as though it were Subversion.
To make the most of Git will involve rethinking our development and release practices. So far, Vincent Driessen’s A successful Git branching model seems quite logical and is the likely candidate for adoption. Let’s see where that takes us. Thanks, Vincent!
I'm Drew Engelson, chief technologist at Celerity, a DC Metro-based technology consulting firm specializing in business acceleration. I seriously hate tomatoes.