by Maciej Zawadzki -June 2004

Last month I wrote about the evils of sloppy deployments. Two main practices may lead to what I call "sloppy deployments."

In this installment, we're going to look at discovery of invalid deployments and their cure. If we're dealing with an application that contains many (perhaps hundreds or thousands) of files, then we'd have to check whether each and every file is exactly the same as what was originally deployed. Sounds like a lot of work, if you're going to do it manually