Archives for Sarah Goff-Dupont

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Launches Atlassian Into Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses a host of Atlassian products to build the software used for flight mission planning as well as modeling data sent back from satellites and Mars rovers. I sat down with David Mittman, lead software developer and "default Atlassian guy" at JPL to get a closer look at what they're up to. JPL was founded in the 1930s as a place to test new rocket technologies, and—after the creation of NASA in 1958—was chartered with developing the robotic spacecraft

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I See You’re Not Automating Your Deploys… Would You Like To?

More and more teams are advancing from continuous integration into some flavor of continuous delivery, and the rise of provisioning and deploy tools makes it easier than ever to get started.  While every team's delivery pipeline will look a little different, there are some things that apply across the board.  I sat down with Andrew Phillips of XebiaLabs, maker of Deployit and the Deployit plugin for Bamboo, to talk about these universal truths.   As VP of Product Management, Andrew spends a lot

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Automatically Creating Bamboo Elastic Images with Bellatrix

As a software company boasting 15 products and add-ons, as well as dozens of plugins for them, Atlassian builds a lot of code.  I mean, a LOT of code. We're also famous for eating our own dogfood, so of course we use Bamboo to orchestrate it all.  Conducting the orchestra is a small and dedicated team of nerds we creatively call "Build Engineering".  This team manages multiple Bamboo instances, each with well over 100 Plans and scores of agents to do the work. The agents allow us to

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Bamboo 4 Has Arrived!

Between Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day and unpredictable weather, March is one crazy month --and we at Atlassian are still deeply mad for distributed version control (DVCS)! As an expression of our mania, we put extra love for DVCS users into Bamboo 4 - Atlassian’s kick ass Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery server - which is now available for download. If you're not a DVCS user (at least, not yet...), there's no need to feel left out because Bamboo 4 has plenty of goodness for you,

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Building in the Cloud Just Got Cheaper!

Great news for Bamboo users!  If you haven't already heard, Amazon has dropped the price of running EC2 instances.  In other words, it just got cheaper to: run your Bamboo builds in the cloud instead of on your own iron tighten up feedback time on your builds by running more jobs in parallel execute builds and tests against more platform/OS/browser combinations Keep in mind this is not a pricing change for Bamboo itself; the change is in the per-hour price Amazon charges for using their

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Get to Know Bamboo’s HungBuildKiller Plugin

What it lacks in snazzy naming, it makes up for in sheer brute-force functionality.  It detects.  It dispatches.  It notifies.  It is... the HungBuildKiller plugin, created by Atlassian build engineer Adrián Deccico (with help on the UI from Bamboo's own Brydie McCoy)! Hung Up On You Hung builds happen for a myriad of reasons: race conditions and infinite loops exposed by tests, connection problems with external repositories or 3rd party services... you name it.  The result is a motley assortment

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