Problems happen. And the quicker and easier you can address them, the better. Having a fully working environment to access your app server to analyze a problem, think of a solution or even apply a fix, takes quite some effort that we may not be willing to make in every situation. Whether you are a sys admin, a developer or a site manager/admin (an advanced user of the app), having tools on the web -- and even more, within the very same application -- does simplify, speed up and improve the experience of managing a production application. When the application is deployed in many different servers as different "instances", proving web tools becomes even more important. This presentation shows some of the typical maintenance tasks that could be provided from within the web app: web debugging errors, inspecting objects, evaluating scripts, profiling requests, etc. We also show a GemStone-specific admin console to see running gems, extent state, logs, backups, indexes, background processes, etc. The above list is not comprehensive of all things that could be allowed, but a good start to demonstrate the idea.

1. Providing site and system
admin tools within the
application
PhD. Ing. Mariano Martinez Peck
marianopeck@gmail.com
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

2. Mariano Martinez Peck
Academics
Software Engineer at UTN-FRBA, Argentina.
PhD in Computer Science at the Université de Lille.
Open-Source
Fuel, DBXSuite (OpenDBX and Glorp), OSSubprocess, HighchartsSt, many
others.
Industry
Previously, many years at different companies developing in different
languages.
Currently, Independent Software Consultant

3. Quuve is the world’s first fully extensible and customizable web-based
investment management ecosystem for professional investors and financial
software developers. Quuve empowers individual and institutional investors to
tailor research and portfolio management tools around their unique needs.
Quuve also provides developers a rich framework upon which they can build
financial apps.

4. We Develop in
Deploy and Persist in
We render with

5. Output of this talk

6. Advanced
Developer
Sysadmin
(& GemStone
admin)
App. Admin
Different but related roles

7. Question: What do they have in common?
Answer: We want each role to be able to
do it’s job the easiest and fastest possible.

8. Multiply that by N nodes…

9. How can we minimize the effort and
improve the experience for all of them?

10. Provide the tools within the
web application!

11. Most admin tools look ugly.
Some of the tools are not my fully invention but
extensions/improvements over existing ones.
All admin tools are protected by user roles.

12. Enough talking…
Demo time!!

13. Thanks!
PhD. Ing. Mariano Martinez Peck
Independent Software Consultant
marianopeck@gmail.com
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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