Behind the scenes: putting a new version of Moobiz live

Posted by Wes Hooper on 21st May 2010 in Moobiz

Interesting (and pretty technical!) post over at the Code As Craft blog on how to easily put a new version of a web application live (via @garyvee).

We came across the same problem when building Moobiz - it's a pretty complicated web app and there were lots of steps involved every time a new version needed to go live.

Putting several versions live in a day soon took up a lot of time, so we wrote some code to automate it!

Like the geeks at Etsy, we looked into existing solutions but found that updating many (many!) database structures automatically and safely needed something a bit different.

And then we started adding extras such as JavaScript bundling...

When we get a chance we'll write up something all proper like. :-)

Meanwhile, here's a screenshot of the Moobiz automated deployment interface:

And no, 'Deployee' isn't a word!

Cross-posted to the Mooloop blog.