Build is largely a solved problem. CI is prevalent in the industry, people understand how to speed up builds and frequently if using C/C++ turn to ElectricAccelerator to get fast, reliable builds. Unfortunately, testing is still a problem. The problem with test automation Compared to build and deployment automation test automation in many companies is [Read More →]
We have three great partners speaking at the SKO. In order of appearance: Todd Feinroth – Opscode Dudley McBride – Rally Wayne Ariola – Parasoft What do they all have in common besides presenting at the SKO and working for awesome companies? They see unique opportunities by partnering with ElectricCloud. I look forward to being [Read More →]
Twice a year the sales staff get together to discuss strategy, learn new things, drink beer and so on. I have been to 3 SKO events and part way through this SKO I can say that this is the best that I have been to yet. The vision and leadership presented is extremely exciting. Unfortunately [Read More →]
Every so often I get the urge to try new things. Recently I have been neglecting the Microsoft side of my skill set. I decided to rectify that and am now armed and dangerous with Windows 8 and Visual studio 2012. Alas, no windows phone or Win RT tablet to play with but enough to [Read More →]
Recently I had the pleasure of chatting with a gentleman who had some extremely strong opinions on the use of the term DevOps by vendors. To put it bluntly, he hated the way vendors are using the term DevOps. To him, DevOps is purely a mindset, not a product suite as he argued vendors are [Read More →]
In an earlier blog post I covered how to push information from internal systems into ElectricCommander. Since then we have some new developments which are released already or coming in ElectricCommander 4.2. Jenkins plugin for ElectricCommander The plugin allows ElectricCommander to easily manipulate jobs or get information from a Jenkins instance. We have many customers [Read More →]
Growing, changing, thriving. These three words sum up both Electric Cloud as a company and it’s employees. Now that I’m no longer one of the youngsters, I notice that I am viewing the workplace with a new perspective. One of the things I am really excited about is the growth of some of the younger [Read More →]
This year I got the chance to attend JavaOne. I attended some interesting sessions and there was quite a buzz around the show compared to last year. As I have worked in the development tools space for most of my career I couldn’t help checking out all things related to process automation. Build automation was [Read More →]
I’ve been spending a lot of time using ElectricDeploy recently. What I really like about ElectricDeploy is the clean separation between design time and runtime actions. Many products I have used have complexity at design time and carry that complexity through to runtime. I believe we have hit the right balance with ElectricDeploy. Having been [Read More →]
A couple of weeks ago I spent time in the Electric Cloud booth at Velocity. I had a conference pass but didn’t get to attend any sessions because the Electric Cloud booth was rather busy. What hit home was that the more things change the more they stay the same. There are still many places [Read More →]
