Infrastructure development as performance art
Published August 3rd, 2009 by mattAnchor recently signed a new customer. This is not normally news, but then again, this is not a normal customer. They’re fairly sizeable, and need a large scale dedicated infrastructure to handle their request volume.
Because of the scale of the development, and some of the novel approaches we’re going with, we’ve decided to blog about the experience of setting it all up. In effect, we’ll be doing the development of this infrastructure in public. Over the next couple of months, as everything comes together, I’ll be regularly writing up what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, and the good, the bad, and the ugly. Some details will need to be obscured, for customer confidentiality reasons, but as much information will be made public as we possibly can. If you’ve never been involved in a big infrastructure project, hopefully you’ll be able to get a feel for what goes into something like this.
We’re code naming this sizeable effort “Project Starbug”, and all the blog posts in this series will be tagged with “project starbug”, for ease of identification. Follow along, and watch the adventure unfold…