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Upgrades in Nova: Objects

This is a part of a series of posts on the details of how Nova supports live upgrades. It focuses on a very important layer that plays several roles in the system, providing a versioned RPC and database-independent facade for … Continue reading

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Upgrades in Nova: RPC APIs

This is a part of a series of posts on the details of how Nova supports live upgrades. It focuses on the very important task of doing proper versioning and handling compatibility in your RPC APIs, which is a baseline … Continue reading

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A brief overview of Nova’s new object model (Part 2)

In Part 1, I described the problems that the Unified Object Model aims to solve within Nova. Next, I’ll describe how the infrastructure behind the scenes achieves some of the magic of making things easier for developers to implement their … Continue reading

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A brief overview of Nova’s new object model (Part 1)

As discussed at the Havana summit, I have been working with Chris Behrens (and others) on the unified-object-model blueprint for Nova. The core bits of it made their way into the tree a while ago and work is underway to … Continue reading

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All your DB are belong to conductor

Well, it’s done. Hopefully. Over the last year, Nova has had a goal of removing direct database access from nova-compute. This has a lot of advantages, especially around security and rolling upgrade abilities, but also brings some complexity and change. Much … Continue reading

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