Patent ID: 9058233
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing updates to a set of hosts associated with a service provider, comprising: obtaining an update to be implemented on the set of hosts maintained by the service provider; characterizing a penalty associated with an error occurring during deployment of the update by a first subset of the set of hosts and an error occurring during deployment of the update by the set of hosts; determining a number of the first subset of hosts and an observation window as a function of the characterization of the penalty associated with an error occurring during deployment of the update by a first subset of the set of hosts and an error occurring during deployment of the update by the set of hosts, wherein determining the number of the first subset of hosts is based, at least in part, on minimizing the penalty; causing the deployment of the update in the first subset of hosts corresponding to the determined number of the first subset of hosts; and when no error is detected during the determined observation window, causing the deployment of the update in the set of hosts.