In a previous post, I showed how we could use Clojure and specifically Incanter to process access logs to graph hits on our site. Now, we’re going to adapt our solution to allow us to to show the number of unique users over time. We’re going to change the previous solution to pull out the [...]
Continuing in a re-occurring series of posts showing my limited understanding of Clojure, today we’re using Clojure for log processing. This example is culled from some work I’m doing right now in the day job – we needed to extract usage information to better understand how the system is performing. The Problem We have an [...]
I’ve been invited to speak on colleague Chris Read’s track at QCon London this March. The track itself is chock full of a number of experienced proffesionals (including two ex-colleagues) so I fully intend to raise my game accordingly. We’re lucky enough to have Michael T. Nygard speaking too, author of perhaps the best book [...]
Categories: Build And Deployment,presentations
Tagged: build, devops, presentations, qcon, speaking
One of the problems quickly encountered when any new team adopts a Continuous Build is that builds become slow. Enforcing a Build Time Limit can help, but ultimately if all of your Continuous Build runs as one big monolithic block, there are limits to what you can do to decrease build times. One of the [...]
Categories: Build And Deployment Patterns
Tagged: build, buildpattern, devops, pattern
Recently, both Paul Julius and Chris Read pointed out that I was perhaps the first person to document the concept of build pipelines, at least in terms of how it relates to continuous integration and the like. As it turns out, the original posts on the subject are from further back than I remember: An [...]
Categories: Build And Deployment