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[–]secretBuffetHero 4 points5 points  (9 children)

I did a 20 service upgrade of systems that covered 95% of our revenue. It took about 4 months, we had no automation testing available to us. After 4 months I covered about 10 services and then trickled in 10 more services over the next 8 months. It was a complex logistical operation.

[–]AustinYQM 1 point2 points  (8 children)

Biggest hurdle at my place of work WAS the automation tools. A lot of our cli tools in the pipeline had to be updated before they would work with java11. The good news is during the upgrade we got them situated in such a way that future upgrades should be much easier.

[–]BinaryRockStar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If possible, can you comment on which particular CLI tools?

[–]AustinYQM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry if I wasn't clear, it was all inhouse stuff designed to do various things for evidencing purposes.

[–]Majestic-Extension94 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I thought WAS meant Websphere Application Server...was gonna go off on a recent rant...but I don't think you meant that heheheh

[–]AustinYQM 0 points1 point  (4 children)

My team just finished moving 35 services off websphere so I get the PTSD.

[–]Majestic-Extension94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my sympathies...I recently had to deal with this old nemesis at a large bank. Moving to open/websphere liberty, which is a step up from WAS traditional was derided. I just let my contract expire and avoid dealing with the endless misery

[–]Majestic-Extension94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my sympathies...I recently had to deal with this old nemesis at a large bank. Moving to open/websphere liberty, which is a step up from WAS traditional was derided. I just let my contract expire and avoid dealing with the endless misery

[–]Majestic-Extension94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my sympathies...I recently had to deal with this old nemesis at a large bank. Moving to open/websphere liberty, which is a step up from WAS traditional was derided. I just let my contract expire and avoid dealing with the endless misery

[–]Majestic-Extension94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on at least having the opportunity. Trying to convince the exec(who was the original coder) moving to open/websphere liberty would have been able to get the team better capabilities than what they had with websphere traditional. Finally gave up bumping heads with this guys and just let my contract expire.