When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades ago we’d observe production by kicking the server. This is obviously no longer practical. We can’t see our production. It’s an amorphous Cloud that we can’t touch or feel. A power that we read about but don’t fully grasp. In this case, …

Data centres used to be exactly that – the centres of our data worlds, where all information, files and records would be kept and controlled. Today, that is no longer the case. More companies are moving to cloud services, whether this is dialling down on their traditional on-premises environments or never setting them up in the first place. This is …

Understand the performance potential of remote and distributed builds and explore how to improve build feedback times. The Remote and Distributed Build Patterns article explains the differences between remote and distributed builds and variations on each. Specifically, we distinguished between “test distribution” and “general build distribution”. This article discusses distributed builds in a broader perspective of improving build feedback times. …