Author Archives: robvanstone

About robvanstone

Principal Consultant and RapidDeploy developer for MidVision Ltd

Big Bang or Incremental Migration Towards Automation – People, Process, Tools

Posted on February 2, 2012 by robvanstone

You’ve Made Your Choice – Automation No more ad-hoc management of your middleware and database technologies – you’re getting automation Reduced number of technologies doing the same thing in different ways – you’re consolidating Reduced number of Single Points of … Continue reading →

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What’s the Truth? IBM WebSphere MQ Deployments

Posted on December 16, 2011 by robvanstone

Java guys and other application developers have been doing it for years (decades!) – writing code, storing it in a Source Code Management tool, building it and deploying it through their “route to live”. WebSphere MQ Deployments are a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Combating Configuration Drift

Posted on November 8, 2011 by robvanstone

Even with processes, the most diligent of (human) resources and the best will in the world, computer environments change from their documented (intended) configuration over time. The likelihood of such changes tends to increase with how much the environment is … Continue reading →

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