Oh hai Jenkins, oh bye Hudson, let’s keep an eye on Concourse
While it didn’t garner much if any attention, at OpenWorld Oracle publicly deprecated Hudson, its fork of the Jenkins continuous integration server. It might be more proper to consider Jenkins a fork of Hudson, given Jenkins was originally developed as Hudson at Sun, back in 2004. But Jenkins is the living project and community, led by […]
How GitLab abandoned the Unix Philosophy
(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. (ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. […]
Thoughtworks on Go. Hudson to Jenkins: continuous integration market dynamics
I had an interesting and fun lunch last week with an old friend (of RedMonk) Dan Roberts, now of Thoughtworks. Dan used to work at Sun Microsystems.We talked about all kinds of stuff, but given the shape of Thoughtwork’s business continuous integration was bound to come up. I remember trying to persuade Sun senior management […]
