May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
15h 9m
English
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Chapter 12. Release Upgrades
After your system goes live, it churns away in the background handling requests day in and day out. It self-heals when issues occur and restarts automatically after power outages or system reboots. But as with any piece of software, you are bound to continue optimizing it, fixing bugs as they are reported and adding new features. Irrespective of having thousands of instances of your coffee machine running on dedicated hardware monitored through a wireless link, or any other system whose requirements state that it must service its requests with 100% availability, upgrades included, then Erlang/OTP’s software upgrade capabilities are something to study carefully. Imagine you not being able to have your morning coffee because of an ongoing firmware upgrade of your office coffee machine!
The built-in functionality in the Erlang VM that allows dynamic module loading might work for simple patches where the upgrade is backward-compatible. But have you thought of the cases where you’ve changed the functional API? Or where a process running a call to completion with an old version of the code cannot communicate with a process running a new version because of a change in the protocol? How do you handle state changes in your loop data between releases or database schema changes? And even more importantly, what if an upgrade fails and you need to downgrade?
Complex systems need to be upgraded in a coordinated and controlled manner. The built-in functionality used ...
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