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Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service?
bellwould (11363) writes "Our CTO has asked us to move our entire dev/test platform off of shared, off-site, hardware onto Amazon, Savvis or the like. Because we don't know enough about this, we're nervous about the costs like CPU: Jenkins tasks checks-out 1M lines of source, then builds, tests and test-deploys 23 product modules 24/7; as well, several Glassfish and Tomcat instances run integration and UI tests 24/7. Disk: large databases instances packed with test and simulation data. Of course, it's all backed up too. So before we start an in-depth review of what's available, what experiences are dev shops having doing stuff like this in the cloud?"
"cloud makes it not matter where you're working from."
Competent IT and VPN does that as well.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
When working for companies, everything was "in the cloud" already: on remote servers. It's not like I was running the stuff on my desktop.
SSH to Amazon or SSH to a box in the closet. Pretty much no difference to me.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.