“The codebase is a minefield —there will be casualties” – JAXenter https://jaxenter.com/continuous-delivery-interview-anton-weiss-128491.html

So I recently talked to a release engineering team leader at a very well-known american software+hardware company located in California. They contacted me looking for top-notch build infrastructure engineers and we spent a very interesting hour discussing their technological stack and people processes. On the surface – they are moving in the right direction – automating all the things, using Chef for config management, codifying the infrastructure, using Artifactory for binaries… But one thing struck me in our conversation. The team leader (clearly a very smart and talented guy) said : “I’ve been trying to hire for two years. Good professionals are so hard to find…” I agreed at first – we all know the market is starving for technical talent. But reflecting on our conversation afterwards I realized that he in fact showed me the number one symptom of how far their team is from ‘doing devops’. Yes –…

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I was recently asked by a customer to outline the pros and cons of using git submodules vs. google repo tool to manage multi-repository integrations in git. There are a lot of articles on the internet bashing each of the tools, but in our opinion – most of it comes from misunderstanding the tool’s design or trying to apply it in an unappropriate context. This post summarizes the general rules of thumb we at Otomato follow when choosing a solution for this admittedly non-trivial situation. First of all – whenever possible – we recommend integrating your components on binary package level rather than compiling everything from source each time. I.e. : packaging components to jars, npms, eggs, rpms or docker images, uploading to a binary repo and pulling in as versioned dependencies during the build.  Still – sometimes this is not an optimal solution, especially if you do a lot…

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Hi all! We really hope you’ve already registered to the Jenkins User Conference Israel which was SOLD OUT yesterday. But even if you haven’t – there’s still a chance to hang out with Kohsuke Kawaguchi – the father of Jenkins himself – and other Jenkins fans at a meetup the good people at JFrog are organising the day after the conference. Here is the link: http://meetu.ps/e/BHkfn/jvVGM/d Right now there are still 22 slots available. Go grab yours. Keep delivering!

We are happy to announce that @antweiss will be speaking about the future of software delivery at JUC Israel 2016 We have a couple of 100 NIS discount tickets to the conference and ticket sale is closing tomorrow! The first two folks to comment on this post will get the discount code. Type them comments!!!