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Daily Archives: April 7th, 2009

Hosts and subdomains and infrastructure deployment

It always amazes me how many IT infrastructure managers apparently fail to understand just what a ’subdomain’ is. How many of the developers reading this blog entry have ever been confronted with the situation of deploying their applications onto infrastructure that’s named like the following?

Local development: localhost, localhost, localhost, joes-dev-box
Development / Integration: tomcatdev-svr1, orcldb0, mq-dev, [...]