Charity Majors is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, a tool for software engineers to explore their code on production systems. Prior to co-founding Honeycomb, Majors worked as production engineering manager at Facebook, was the first infrastructure engineer on Parse also spent several years at Linden Lab as operations and database engineer working on the infrastructure that powers “Second […]
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Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas on the Ailments of Cloud-Native
Red Hat developer advocate Michael Hausenblas is on the road 70 percent of his time — yet he managed to carve out some time to speak to us about what ills cloud-native and what to do about it. Hint: aligning the Dev with the Ops inside organizations can go a long way in solving many deployment […]
On How DevOps Destroys Walls, Builds Bridges, and Influences Company Culture for the Better
John Arundel is a consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes. We spoke with John on how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better.
Travis CI Alternative for Private Projects
Travis CI is one of the most popular hosted Continuous Integration solutions. Most notably, it has made a huge contribution to the developer community by serving the biggest share of open source projects. However in 2019 most new software projects are looking for a solution that can drive the entire Continuous Delivery lifecycle. There’s also […]
Kubernetes Pioneer Tim Hockin on the State of Kubernetes 2018
Tim Hockin, one of the originators of Kubernetes, is an artist turned engineer. We spoke with Hockin about the state of Kubernetes in 2018, the past and the future of the project and the buzz around it.
Why Cloud Native Success Depends on High-Velocity CI/CD
Article originally published on The New Stack. The goal of every tech leader is to deliver bug-free products to customers at high velocity. Today’s cloud-native technology can empower engineering teams to iterate, at scale, faster than ever. But teams that don’t also change how they deliver software will struggle to benefit from the agility and […]
On Transitioning from a Developer Role to Strategic Business Role
In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month, we had a chat with Jeffrey Chupp, the Director of Engineering at Dribbble.
On Prioritizing Performance and Usability with Slim.js Creator
In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month we had a chat with Avichay Eyal, the man behind Slim.js – the fastest open source […]
Continuous Delivery Patterns with Serverless Applications
Adoption of serverless technology is surely growing, with emerging product companies who built on top of it. One of them is CloudZero, a Semaphore customer, who recently wrote a detailed article about their experience in achieving continuous delivery for their all-serverless system.
A Practical Guide to Test Doubles in Elixir
Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at one of the main use cases for test doubles in Elixir: aiding in the interaction between domain logic and impure components that exist over the boundaries of an application. Tests relying on such components are usually brittle, and need to reach out to external resources whose state […]
Rails Testing Handbook Available for Kindle
In April, we officially released Rails Testing Handbook, a free ebook in which our engineers shared how to write tests and practice BDD to develop sustainable Rails applications. The handbook teaches you all you need to know about the BDD approach of analyzing, testing, coding, and designing a system in one short feedback loop. BDD […]
Doubled Free CI/CD Capacity for Open Source
At Semaphore, for years we’ve been happy to support open source projects with a free continuous integration service. Today we’re increasing the free CI/CD capacity on all open source organizations from 2 to 4 Boxes.
Faster Rails CI with Automated Parallel Testing Available to All
Earlier, we launched Semaphore Boosters, a feature that allows you to automate parallelizing your RSpec and Cucumber tests in a few clicks. The feature has helped many teams to reduce their Rails CI build times by as much as 2 hours in some cases. Initially, the feature was available only to some users. It has […]
Setting up a BDD Stack on a Rails 5 Application
This post is adapted from Rails Testing Handbook, a free ebook on building sustainable Rails apps with BDD. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of generating a new Rails 5 application, with all the necessary tools to set up a behavior-driven development (BDD) flow. We will set up 5 tools that […]
Running Applications on a Docker Swarm Mode Cluster
Introduction This tutorial is the last in a series of tutorials concerning the container orchestration tool, Docker Swarm. In this series, we’ve already seen how to establish a Swarm cluster, schedule services to the cluster’s nodes, make those services consumable from within and outside the cluster, and update and rollback services in-flight. We’ve mainly focused […]