Moving Day has Arrived!

Building Great Code

Finally, moving day has arrived! This morning I've been getting things moved over to the new servers in our own datacenter, and this should provide a very needed boost to the performance of the application. This includes a CouchDB server with 24 cores and 96GB of RAM with a 1.6TB disk array, as well as a nice app server with 24 cores and 96 GB of RAM. There's a mirrored Couch pair for production, and a similar app server there.

It's been a lot of little things, lots of little code changes and pushes. Even some reconfiguring of aliases in the firewalls, but that's where I'm starting to hit a snag. I used to be able to do this, now it's meant to be handled by the production operations group. That's not too bad, but they won't push anything until 4:00 pm today, and if it's not 100% right, then we're going to have a hard time getting it right for tomorrow.

I'm hoping to get a few more tests done today, but I doubt that I'll be able to simply because a co-worker is busy using UAT to test things there. It's a shared environment, and there's no way to run both tests at once, so since he was first, I have to wait.

I'm not the most patient of people.