I’ve been a bit remiss lately of not getting some more articles out here on Sanders Technology. It’s not for a lack of inspiration – I’ve been doing a fair bit of work lately which would be blog-worthy, but have just been snowed under getting a fairly substantial maiden release into Production.
This one is a beauty – over six months of planning and execution:
- Rolled out over 5 logical environments (Development, Test, UAT, Training and Production)
- Implemented internal PKI to secure endpoints, with external CA signed certificates for external facing applicances
- WS-Fed and SAML 2.0 web applications (relying parties)
- Migration of over 30,000 existing users to Active Directory
- Standing up an external AD FS 3.0 service for federation
- Bespoke MVC 5 portal (WS-Fed relying party)
- CORS integration between a legacy site (Domino 9) and new (MVC 5)
- Tunnelling integration to Dynamics CRM 2013 (courtesy of internal WebAPI wrapper web services using the XRM services)
- Implementation and use of Mass Transit and MSMQ for ESB style message routing and processing
- Message translation down to services used to synchronise Notes from CRM
- Implemented Octopus Deploy to manage releases, configuration and environment
- Introduced a private NuGet repository to allow separate solutions to manage common assemblies/dependencies
- Documented the whole thing with copious amounts of documentation, including:
- System security plans
- High level solution design
- Environment design
- DR recovery plan for Mass Transit
- Co-ordinated/conducted load and performance testing
- Internal and external load testing
- External testing via Azure
- Internal testing via Visual Studio 2013 load test + load agents
- Hardened the environment for penetration testing
..and those are just the highlights. We launched officially yesterday to existing users with minimal issues.
Stay tuned for more articles soon.
