Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.
• Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial coder.
• Mathias Meyer, hacker on Travis, author of the Riak Handbook.
• Travis now provides first class support for Python and Perl.
• Travis also supports several versions of Ruby including Ruby hidHEAD.
• [8:15] Mathias lays out the case for Travis vs. Jenkins, namely a streamlined user interface.
• Travis runs almost exclusively on Heroku.
• AMQP powers the message queues in Travis.
• Keep an eye on Travis listener.
• The GitHub service hook makes setting up your open source project on Travis a breeze.
• If you’re a Travis user, show some love to keep the features coming.
• GitHubber Rick Olson worked on some API features to help Travis more deeply integrate with GitHub.
• Private repo support, aka Travis Pro™ is on its way. If you want to get in on the beta, donate to the project.
• Donate $500, get an hour of pairing with Aaron Patterson, Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Jon Leighton, or other Ruby pro.
• Mathias previously worked at Basho and The Riak Handbook is a collection of what he learned there.
• José Valim is Josh’s programming hero for his code and community building.
• Mathias is playing with Kestrel and Zookeeper.
• Josh and Mathias like Celluloid.
• Mike Perham’s Sidekiq has caught Josh and Mathias’ eye.

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