[TSTIL] Mendix Cloud v4 - Part 2 - How to launch a complicated product
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[ This is a part of " The Software That I Love ", a series of posts about Software that I created or had a small part in ] 2018 - Mendix Cloud v4 - Part 2 - How to launch a complicated product Note : This was a multi-year mega project (at least for my standards) and ran from about 2015 till 2018 when I left Mendix. It's still one of my proudest professional achievements. If you haven't yet, read part 1 about Cloud v4 . During 2017/2018 our team was doing a lot of things at the same time: Handle the operational fires in Mendix Cloud v1/v2/v3. Add new hardware with 50%-100% YoY growth, as well as handle all kinds of customer requests, like resizing VMs or adding more storage. These were all manual operations by our engineers. Migrate v1/v2 apps to v3 to ensure standardization. Build v4 which would make everything standard, scalable and self-service. It would be the solution to solve the chaos from v1/v2/v3. Fires? What fires? Running a 24/7 hosting operation for custome