how do big tech companies carry out updates and upgrades with downtime?
Lets say for example i deployed my website on vps
So whenever update a ui
I have to take down the website then run npm run build then take the site back up
It's all automated though
My thoughts are i am very sure this isn't how big companies handle it because its international
3 Replies
While one server is updating, run a second server with the old site, once the first server is done updating then fire it back up, send all traffic to it, and wind down the second server
That's the basic premise but it can get wayyyyyy more complex than that
And that's only accounting for stateless backends
Unknown User•2y ago
Message Not Public
Sign In & Join Server To View
Ahhhh thanks for that, ‘rolling deployment’ is the term I was looking for but forgot