When you hear the words Continuous Integration (CI), you immediately think about this big project with Jenkins, long builds, failing tests, and a budget sinkhole. Is this stopping you from getting …
On Hidden Costs and the Value of DevOps
When you think about cost in the DevOps world, the first thing that will come to mind is your AWS bill, or maybe that Datadog subscription. However, the cost is not always as straightforward as …
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9 Ways to Speed Up Your CI/CD Pipelines
Do you know that one web service you have that builds multiple executables, a database migration script, and downloads a million libraries?You wait an hour just to watch it get to 80% when it fails. …
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Unit Testing for Jenkins Shared Libraries
If you are working with Jenkins Shared libraries, you may be missing out on what in my opinion is a great way to structure and test your project. I found a great blog post that explains how to do it …
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Using Jenkins’s replay feature to work on without repeatedly committing the Jenkinsfile
Sometimes, when working on Jenkins jobs, I find myself stuck in this cycle of committing the Jenkinsfile, pushing it, and running the job over and over again. I have to admit it gets old real fast. …