Questions tagged [upgrade]
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First time having users - how to deal with backwards compatibility?
I'm reaching out with the following situation:
I'm the author of an application that saves a file format to disk.
There are real users using the application in their workflows.
Frequently, I want to ...
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What is a hitless upgrade?
Ive been reading software architecture in practice and I have encountered the term hitless in-service software upgrade on chapter 5 page 92.
What does a hitless upgrade means in the context of faults, ...
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Java version: When to migrate? [closed]
About 4 years ago, where I was working, software was still being developed with Java 7 + Swing.
It took me a couple years, but we could finally migrate to Java 8 + JavaFX, two years after that.
Now ...
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How to Upgrade MQ with incremental approach with 50 micro services
I have around 50 microservices which communicate with each other using Apache MQ implementation.
I want to know if I can avoid big bang approach when I need to upgrade the MQ version.
Current option ...
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Risk of NuGet package adding new reference DLL
Had an interesting discussion with our architect. It was related to replacing a plain DLL reference with a NuGet package. His worry was "If it is possible for single NuGet package to add multiple DLL ...
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Convince a manager to use newer compiler version [closed]
I'm working in some environment where an older version of g++ is used to compile some production code: g++ 4.3.x . This might sound outrageous to you, but in various organizational settings ...
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How to allow for seamless upgrades from base/forked application?
I built a base/skeleton user-based web app. It just has sign up, log in, log out, forgot password, verify email address, etc. Now I can easily build user-based apps by developing on top of the base ...
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Name for "chained" version upgrades? [closed]
Consider two strategies for implementing an upgrade of something with multiple versions (e.g. upgrading an installation of some software).
From any version, upgrade directly to the latest version.
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How can I make sure my PHP code is compatible with a newer version
I have a bunch of PHP 5.6 code that I would like to get up to 7.2. My biggest concern was the change that causes an error when you call a function without enough parameters. Previously, this was a ...
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MQ Architecture: How to handle old messages in the queue and releasing a consumer/producer upgrade
So for example if I have a producer that sends a message
{id: 1}
to a consumer that expects that json object. And there's a ton of messages sitting in the queue waiting to be processed. I'm also ...
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Should I rebuild to use latest tech?
I am a full stack developer in a very small company.
It has a custom built ERP software using PHP 4 (no framework). Currently, it works fine from the business point of view except for some bugs here ...
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Why do many software developers violate the open/closed principle?
Why do many software developers violate the open/closed principle by modifying many things like renaming functions which will break the application after upgrading?
This question jumps to my head ...
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Upgrading inherited 3rd party code with changes [closed]
I inherited a php project of 3rd party code with a good deal of company-specific customization lumped on top of it. Now I've got to upgrade it and the person who owned the project is the one I've ...
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Should I use an open source client framework or create my own?
I am working at a medium sized internet company, and I was handed the task of implementing the framework for our sites rebranding.
It's quite an old (and ugly) site, and we want to update its look ...
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how to upgrade software [closed]
I am a beginner in computer programming with C/C++. I have previous experience in programming for the web. There is some confusion that I am having with the software development process in desktop ...
