I’ve pushed out a few changes to the site and moved it to run on Pivotal Web Services.

If you’re unaware PWS is a hosted version of Cloud Foundry that’s run by Pivotal, my employer. It’s a great place to run apps of all sizes. Find out more info here.

A recent encounter with a customer resulted in a couple good questions regarding the workflow that one would use to deploy apps to Cloud Foundry in order to try for a 100% up-time. Based on that, I would share the questions and answers here.

Question #1 - How do you push updates to your application without downtime?

Currently when you push, or restart for that matter, an application running on Cloud Foundry, the change is applied in a series of steps that go roughly like this.

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