A friend pointed me to a blog in which Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink, asserts that the term “private cloud” is nothing more than empty marketing hype. Ironically, he proposes that we instead use the term “service-oriented cloud computing.” Maybe I’m being obtuse, but “service-oriented” anything is about the most buzzladen term I’ve heard [Read More →]

One challenge that we’ve faced at Electric Cloud is how to verify that our makefile parser correctly emulates GNU Make. We started by generating test cases based on a close reading of the gmake manual. Then we turned to real-world examples: makefiles from dozens of open source projects and from our customers. After several years [Read More →]

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 →]

One of the challenges that any developer faces is finding a small test case that reproduces a defect reported by users. That’s often easier said than done: when the defect originally shows up during parsing of a makefile consisting of 20,000 lines of nested calls to $(eval), separating the interesting lines from the irrelevant lines [Read More →]