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Practical DevOps, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical DevOps, Second Edition Implement DevOps in your organization by effectively building, deploying, testing, and monitoring code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392570
Length 250 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

The monolithic scenario

One way to understand the issues that a problematic architecture can cause for CD is to consider a counter-example for a while.

Let's suppose we have a large web application with many different functions. We also have a static website inside the application. The entire web application is deployed as a single Java EE application archive. So, when we need to fix a spelling mistake in the static website, we need to rebuild the entire web application archive and deploy it again.

While this may be seen as a silly example, and the enlightened reader would never do such a thing, I have seen this anti-pattern live in the real world. As DevOps engineers, this could be an actual situation that we may be asked to solve.

Let's break down the consequences of this tangling of concerns. What happens when we want to correct a spelling mistake? Let's take...

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