In this post I will get into some additional findings from our deployment and also tie all our findings into the deployment of ElectricAccelerator in a virtual environment. You can find part one of this article here.

At Electric Cloud, we’ve identified some best practices as we have gone through the set up of a virtual infrastructure to support our own engineering needs. If you’ve already gone through this exercise, the following may seem trivial. Or perhaps you have other nuggets of wisdom to share. (If so, please do!) Either way, I [Read More →]

ElectricAccelerator vs distcc – samba reloaded In an earlier post I compared the performance of ElectricAcclerator and distcc by building samba using each tool in turn on the same cluster. In that test I found that Accelerator bested distcc at suitably high levels of parallelism, but that distcc narrowly beat Accelerator at lower levels of [Read More →]

Today we announced integrations and compatibility with public cloud computing – specifically Amazon EC2. Cloud computing is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. It provides an easy to deploy, cost-effective, scalable, on-demand computing infrastructure –very timely, given shrinking or frozen IT budgets. I can’t count the number of customers who tell me that [Read More →]

I recently contributed an article to CM Crossroads on when (or whether) to upgrade from an open source Continuous Integration (CI) system to a fully automated enterprise system.  It’s a question we get a lot.  To help our customers assess their needs, I always start by asking these seven questions: