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Murat MEK
January, 2015

AGENDA
About me
Starting Point?
Dummy/Stage Architecture?
Silent Deployment?
Channels Dashboard?
How it Works?
Future?
Demo

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ABOUT ME
Turkcell Technology, 2008
Turkcell, 2009
Bachelor of Applied Science,
Computer Engineering, 2009
Oracle Certificated Siebel
Administrator, 2011
Master of Engineering,
Computer Engineering, 2013
Doctor of Philosophy,
Computer Engineering, 2014
Senior Middleware
Administrator, 2014

http://tr.linkedin.com/in/simsekmurat

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STARTING POINT

The total number of Weblogic domains

amounts to 500+, while that of Weblogic
instance numbers 2500+.
My team manages the largest Weblogic
domain (with 150 instances), and there are 24
Weblogic domains (with 73 instances) in our
environment for test/development.
12,5%

10%

5%

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Imagine you were a Weblogic admin in Turkcell

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How would you keep
the 55 applications in
one Weblogic domain
of your
test/development
environment
continuously working
without service failures
(404 not found, error
500 etc.)?

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You also need to consider what to do if the

status of the applications in your Weblogic
domain turned to failed, where 342
developers and testers make changes.

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Would you manually test the errors of each

failed application and transfer the error logs
manually to each related team of development?

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How would you deploy the corrected

application packages (ear/war/jar) into your
Weblogic server?

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Would you manually copy the updated

applications with sftp onto your server?
Stop-update-start each one of them manually
from the Weblogic console?
Or restart all Weblogic instances?

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These questions pose a problem for both

clients and admins, and influences clients
negatively.
It might take a long time to detect a problem
in any one of the applications from logs, to
send it to the development, to correct the
errors, to send it back to the admin, and to
manually deploy the application or restart the
domain.
In such a case, how would you maintain your
client satisfaction or efficiently spend your
work hours?

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To solve all these problems, there are four

innovative unique solutions in Turkcell that I
offered:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Use Dummy/Stage Architecture

Use Dummy/Stage Log Miner
Use Silent Deployment
Use Channels Dashboard

 REFRESHMENT

Take a long time to

detect a problem

Client Satisfaction
Efficiently spend your work hours

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DUMMY/STAGE ARCHITECTURE

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The new architecture I developed in the

Weblogic domain prevents clients from
experiencing failures of application (404 not
found, error 500 etc.).

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It involves the installation of custom

Weblogic instance instead of default
Weblogic instance.
Dummy/Stage Architecture serves to control
the codes deployed in the domain firstly in the
custom Weblogic instance.

DUMMY/STAGE LOG MINER

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It works with Dummy/Stage Architecture.

The errors of the failed applications in the
deployment are detected with advanced shell
scripting in the logs and an e-mail about the
detected errors is automatically sent to the
related development team.
The whole log file is not sent in the e-mail;
instead, only stack trace is sent by trimming
the log file.

ACHIEVED RESULTS & BUSINESS IMPACT

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With Dummy/Stage Architecture, there are no

service failures(404 not found, error 500 etc.)
in the weblogic environments.
The weblogic admin does not need to do any
manual operations(server restart, manual
deployment from the weblogic console, the
sftp server of an application) with the help of
this innovative solution.

SILENT DEPLOYMENT
After the failed applications are
repaired by the development
teams, the corrected applications
are automatically deployed
every 15 min, without the need
for a manual operation of the
admin (server restart, manual
deployment from the weblogic
console, the sftp server of an
application) and without any
interruptions (restart).

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SILENT DEPLOYMENT

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Silent Deployment automatically detects the
updated application by the developer.
The updated application is first controlled in
the Dummy/Stage architecture.
If it doesnt receive any errors there, the
application is automatically deployed to all the
other servers without restarting them.

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While developing the Silent Deployment, I

used over 1000 lines of advanced shell
scripting, WLST, java (weblogic.Deployer),
and pl/sql languages.

HOW IT WORKS

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Production redeployment: distributing new

version of applications via Silent Deployment.

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WebLogic automatically manages client

connections so that only new client requests are
directed to the new version.
Enables you to update and redeploy an
application in a production environment
without stopping the application.

EQUIVALENT PRODUCTS

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EQUIVALENT PRODUCTS

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ACHIEVED RESULTS & BUSINESS IMPACT

Before that, the

applications used to
be deployed by using
the Weblogic console
(stop-update-start)
or restarting
Weblogic servers for
8 years.

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With Silent
Deployment, I
managed to deploy
the applications
automatically and
without interruptions
in the system.

ACHIEVED RESULTS & BUSINESS IMPACT

Before Silent
Deployment, clients
(developers, testers,
analysts) would spend
between 2 h 15 min
and 8h 30 min to see
the updated version
of an application in
the system.

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This is reduced to 15
min with the help of
Silent Deployment.

ACHIEVED RESULTS & BUSINESS IMPACT

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With Silent Deployment, for one application in

the weblogic domain, 22 work hoursXclients
(developers, testers, analysts) salary were
saved per day.
The weblogic admin does not need to do any
manual operations(server restart, manual
deployment from the weblogic console, the
sftp server of an application) with the help of
this innovative solution.

ACHIEVED RESULTS & BUSINESS IMPACT

2013 vs. 2014 60%

2012 vs. 2014 75%

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CHANNELS DASHBOARD

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I also developed an instantaneously updated

web interface by using Oracle Application
Express, pl/sql, html/java script technologies.

CHANNELS DASHBOARD

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The teams of development, analysts, and

testers easily monitor important information
like Silent Deployment, Dummy/Stage
Architecture, Log Miner, Weblogic ServerPool cases.
When any kind of information is needed about
the environments, it can be immediately
accessed.

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IN CONCLUSION

To see the updated

version of an
application reduced
to 15 min.

11830 work hoursXclients

(developers, testers,
analysts) salary were saved

THANK YOU

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Best Practices For Weblogic Application

Deployment & Administration
Murat MEK, FMW SIG, January 2015