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Scott Robinson
November 03, 2011
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OMG BUILDZ
To all my downtrodden build monkeys of the world.
Scott Robinson
November 03, 2011
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Transcript
HAI GAIS
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λ = t·d
0! 10! 20! 30! 40! 50! 60! 70! 80! 90!
1! 2! 4! 8! 16! # of contributors! Builds / hr" (avg. 1 - 4 commits / hr)!
L = λW Little’s Law
1! 2! 3! 4! 5! 6! 7! 8! Build 1!
Build 2! Build 3!
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Pre-Commit
Smoke Build Test Deploy
Smoke Build Test Deploy Test
Smoke Build Test Deploy Test Build Build Test Test
Smoke Build Test Deploy Test Build Build Deploy Deploy Test
Deploy Test
Smoke Important Mess Less Important Mess
Feedback Cycle
Feedback Cycle • Order stages by team value • Do
not stop for regression • Do not mark tests as broken
What stops you from continuing with confidence?
•Resourcing •Configuration What takes our time?!
On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services http://bit.ly/ReadThisPaper
Use Virtual Machines
Use Virtual Machines • Snapshot and Clone • Validate machines
• Resource by Capability
Resource by Capability • Windows • JRuby • Selenium •
build • project-a • scott’s box YES NO
Use Configuration Management
Use Configuration Management
Use Configuration Management Vagrant
Configuration • Version build configuration • Build scripts in the
source tree • Use build artifacts
•Keep build time low •Each stage in a pipeline increases
confidence •Builds are part of your software
fin The hardest part about builds is safe experimentation. Sadly,
our tools make this hard for us.
Thank You — Andrew K. — Brady L. — Brian
G. — Dane B. — Darren S. — Dave R. — Evan B. — James F. — Julio M. — Kristan V. — Maha N. — Rob H. — Ryan B. — Sam G. — Scott S. — Sreeni A. — Wen D.