We recently talked to one of our customers implementing ElectricCommander, our software development and delivery automation solution, and the improvements this customer has seen with ElectricCommander are truly astounding. The customer (for privacy reasons, we shall not name them here), creates cutting edge software used by millions of web users/consumers around the globe. Their software [Read More →]
In a previous blogpost by Eric Melski, he covered the basic conflict detection algorithm in ElectricMake. It’s surprisingly simple, which is one of its strengths. But if ElectricMake strictly adhered to the simple definition of a conflict, many builds would be needlessly serialized, sapping performance. Over the years we’ve made a variety of tweaks to the [Read More →]
Parallel execution is a popular technique for reducing software build length, and for good reason. These days, multi-core computers have become standard — even my laptop has four cores — so there’s horsepower to spare. And it’s “falling over easy” to implement: just slap a “-j” onto your make command-line, sit back and enjoy the [Read More →]
This is part five of a five part series where we will present five distinct challenges that if left unaddressed will drastically reduce an organization’s ability to gain the benefits promised by a move to Agile development methods. It’s a sad fact that in most enterprises, the process of building, testing, and deploying software is [Read More →]
Did you know that almost 25% of the people at this year’s summit had been to at least one summit before? Building on the statistics we posted previously, Eric Melski’s done some deep analysis of the 2011 Electric Cloud Customer Summit over on his blog. Eric pulled together lots of interesting metrics, with plenty of [Read More →]
Electric Cloud proudly announced ElectricAccelerator 6.0 last week. Eric Melski, ElectricAccelerator Architect, gives us a rundown of the major new features: http://blog.melski.net/2011/10/13/whats-new-in-electricaccelerator-6-0/
Last week was the 2011 Electric Cloud Summit and we had a great turn out. It was a three day (1 day of training and 2 days of speakers) event at the Downtown San Jose Fairmont. The event by the numbers: 150+ registrants (50% increase from last year) 130+ participants Amazing presentations from companies including [Read More →]
After having helped a customer resolve a tricky problem with one of their builds, our Chief Architect for the ElectricAccelerator product Eric Melski wrote up a detailed step-by-step and state-of-the-art walkthrough of the build debugging process – from initial problem presentation, through multiple theories and finally to resolution.
Last week at VMworld our very own Martin Van Ryswyk gave a presentation with Equinix CIO, Brian Lillie, on creating an enterprise cloud. Click here to read his summary of the session.
What a week! 20,000 attendees and amazing sessions in hot (110°) in Las Vegas. VMworld was also a great show for us. • We had a wonderful booth and hundreds of VMworld attendees stopped by to learn more about our solution • We announced our integration with VMware vCLoud Director. See our press release here [Read More →]
