- How did you guys scale that much w/o a bootloader before?
That's what I don't get. All the design patterns are those of Unix. You boot the kernel with a ... bootloader. Then you've the kernel with all the system's params (call it ECS). Then each process is a child of the root process. And when you get by whatever mean the news that your app's source code has changed, you pull that code and start running it, while still having the old one live. Once the fork of the new code returns a proper response code, you kill the old one and set the new app live, otherwise you stay live with the old version.
That's what I don't get. All the design patterns are those of Unix. You boot the kernel with a ... bootloader. Then you've the kernel with all the system's params (call it ECS). Then each process is a child of the root process. And when you get by whatever mean the news that your app's source code has changed, you pull that code and start running it, while still having the old one live. Once the fork of the new code returns a proper response code, you kill the old one and set the new app live, otherwise you stay live with the old version.