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We’re excited to announce that Prodvana recently received our SOC 2 Type 2 compliance report!

Storage systems have very complex requirements for deployment. In this post we explore how Prodvana can make even the most complex deploys simple.

Distributed systems have evolved and require more sophisticated ways to handle deployment. This is the first of a two part series on distributed systems and deployments.

This blog outlines Prodvana’s Golden Path -- our default software path to production. This is how we ship our product to you, our customers. With our golden path, we can onboard a new engineer at Prodvana in 30 minutes and have them deploying code safely in less than 1 hour. 

As a Product Engineer, I’ve seen firsthand how CD systems can slow down product development in growing engineering teams. 

As we’ve mentioned before, CD’s static nature is one of its fatal flaws. Static pipelines treat “delivery” as a discrete event without considering the ever-changing contexts surrounding it — whether it’s infrastructure changes, changes coming from other teams’ deployment pipelines, or changes in user behavior. CD usually misses these signals. 

Have you ever had to look up directions to meet a friend? Then memorized it or written it down? Only to find a roadblock, accident, electrical issues on the tracks, and many other unforeseeable issues.

According to HashiCorp’s 2022 State of the Cloud report, 4 out of 5 companies use or plan to use multi-cloud.

Continuous Delivery & Deployment have three fatal flaws which make them unsuited for modern software delivery.

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about the importance of having a platform strategy and why platforms are ultimately a business strategy. Once you have defined a strategy, the next step is to execute this strategy. Unfortunately, executing a large strategy is rarely ever simple, and plans will have to change and adapt.

How does one go about building platforms? As in most things, the place to start with is the why. In this blog post, I will argue the importance of defining a platform strategy and why platforms are necessarily a business strategy.

I was the tech lead for a project to replace Dropbox’s aging monolith with a modern platform. The monolith story is similar to many in the industry. There were many initiatives to improve the monolith situation, including a company-wide Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) push a few years prior. These initiatives all failed to make lasting changes due to conflicting incentives and priorities.

In 1996, my parents gave me a Performa 6115 Macintosh for my 15th birthday and a subscription to Dr. Dobbs, a magazine about programming that ended in 2014.