Many modern distributed architectures are built on the concept of microservices; small, simple (well, they are supposed to be simple) services that do well-defined tasks and are easily deployable in a highly available infrastructure. A great use for microservices is defining a business domain, and providing a data gateway for…

In the last installment of this series (https://medium.com/stainless-ai/simple-repeatable-free-an-open-source-software-delivery-pipeline-part-i-4ae89e7a6478), we Reviewed some DevOps concepts; Discussed semantic versioning for our software packages; Introduced a custom Gitflow and; Introduced a Jenkins shared library for automating semantic versioning of our builds In this installment we’re going to take a closer look at the jenkins-semci…

If you’re developing software, one of the most important processes you need to have in place is a solid build & delivery system. It sounds obvious — but it’s often overlooked — that several key operations must be repeatable and precise to ensure quality software. For example, repeatable builds: can…