Posts tagged with "qwaya"

Last fall, we moved the Qwaya Facebook ads tool from a single host on Rackspace to a clustered Docker based environment on AWS. This is the first blog post of hopefully more that I’m writing to remember what we did. I’ve planned two more posts, one on how we handle CI and one on container orchestration.

Why Docker?

The task at hand was not “Move to docker”, it was “get out of single host hosting”. The old deployment consisted of some quite complicated Fabric scripts that was run from an arbitrary developers laptop. The source code repository did not match the deployment setup, so there was a lot of remote copy commands running around. I know that this is a very common way of deploying applications, but it brings a number of problems. For example, there are no build artifacts, making repeatable builds harder, and if the build fails halfway in you will have a broken system.

Friday was my last day as a consultant at Valtech, and starting Monday I will join the team of developers at Qwaya.

This was the second time I was employed by Valtech. I originally joined them in 2005 after five years at Lecando. Back then, Valtech was one of only three companies in Stockholm actively promoting agile software development. (The other two was Agero and Citerus). I spent two years away from Valtech, first in product development at WeMind and after that trying to set up a Thoughtworks office in Stockholm. Neither of those two turned out the way I had hoped, so I was happy to return to Valtech in the fall of 2009.