If rules have been broken, the files that caused the failure are flagged and the job cannot proceed unless those files are fixed or removed. The user can click a button to open problem files in Notepad to make a quick fix. Only the files with errors are then retested. Any Active Server Pages are also sent to a process that puts it into a queue to be automatically tested for performance. This way, we can evaluate the performance of application code on our site at a glance.
Replication Let's say our job is approved.
The job can either be published immediately out or scheduled for a specific date and time. First, the files are copied to a golden server, which sits between the test server and the replication process. Once files are copied to the golden server, they can sit there until their scheduled publication time comes due, but the Web builder can make future changes to the file on the test server. Now things get really interesting. Worldwide stagers are used as a buffer to balance load in the U.S. and to maximize efficiency at international sites, since files only need to be sent once per site over transatlantic lines to populate multiple live servers in our London and Tokyo data centers.