Minimizing content freeze period

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Rick Beemsterboer

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Mar 4, 2015, 8:28:11 AM3/4/15
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Hi hippo's,

At my current project the customer would like to be able to do production deploys during the day. One of the main issues with this is there always needs to be a content freeze of some sort; a time period in which editors do not make any changes to the content, because changes made during the deployment will be lost. 
Currently the time it takes to backup the db, restore it on pre-prod, build indexes, etc takes a couple of hours. During this time editors cannot use the cms, which is unacceptable during office hours. We're looking at ways of minimizing this period, making daytime deploys possible.

I vaguely remember a talk from someone at Hippo (though I could be remembering this wrong ;-)), about tooling that makes it possible to (for instance) export all content created after a certain timestamp. Tooling like that could enable us to get an export of all changes made during a deployment, to import on our pre-prod environment. This could theoretically bring the content freeze window down to minutes instead of hours.

So, does any tooling like this exist or is this something that's being worked on? How do others deal with content freezes and keeping them as short as possible?

Thanks,
Rick

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Ate Douma

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Mar 5, 2015, 9:27:25 AM3/5/15
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On 2015-03-04 14:28, Rick Beemsterboer wrote:
> Hi hippo's,
>
> At my current project the customer would like to be able to do production
> deploys during the day. One of the main issues with this is there always needs
> to be a content freeze of some sort; a time period in which editors do not make
> any changes to the content, because changes made during the deployment will be
> lost.
> Currently the time it takes to backup the db, restore it on pre-prod, build
> indexes, etc takes a couple of hours. During this time editors cannot use the
> cms, which is unacceptable during office hours. We're looking at ways of
> minimizing this period, making daytime deploys possible.

There are several ways and strategies to shorten this period, but this typically
also requires special knowledge and handling depending on the project and
customer requirements.
If desired Hippo can provide consultancy and implementation support for this.

>
> I vaguely remember a talk from someone at Hippo (though I could be remembering
> this wrong ;-)), about tooling that makes it possible to (for instance) export
> all content created after a certain timestamp. Tooling like that could enable us
> to get an export of all changes made during a deployment, to import on our
> pre-prod environment. This could theoretically bring the content freeze window
> down to minutes instead of hours.
>
> So, does any tooling like this exist or is this something that's being worked
> on? How do others deal with content freezes and keeping them as short as possible?

This is an upcoming Enterprise feature indeed.
You can contact the designated account manager for your customer for more
information if you'd like.

Kind regards,
Ate Douma
Hippo Engineering Platform team

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> Thanks,
> Rick
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Mar 5, 2015, 9:31:30 AM3/5/15
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Hi Ate,

Thanks for your reply. Any idea when this feature will become available for enterprise customers?

Rick

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Ate Douma

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Mar 5, 2015, 10:07:09 AM3/5/15
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On 2015-03-05 15:31, Rick Beemsterboer wrote:
> Hi Ate,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Any idea when this feature will become available for
> enterprise customers?

I can't make concrete statements on this.
I suggest using another channel to get more information :)

Ate

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