The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. Highlights: Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins Happy Jenkins continues to take over the world, with more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins Events: Jenkins User Conference – 10/23 in Palo Alto, CA (use discount code BEE-JUC); Jenkins Scalability Summit 10/24; and more Jenkins made the SD Times 2013 Top 100! What’s...

The Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Palo Alto is less than two months away! The organizing committee, 13 sponsors and 16 speakers have been hard at work coordinating a fun and educational day for the Jenkins community on October 23. Check out the agenda and see for yourself! Speakers are traveling from around the globe to take part in this conference, including a number of usual...

This is a guest post by Mike Rowan, VP R&D at SendGrid. Q: Tell us a bit about what your service and plugin do. Who is it for? What are the highlights of your plugin? A: Loader.io is a simple-to-use cloud-based load testing service. The service is designed for developers and people who need to ensure applications are performing as they should. It allows developers to...

This is a guest post by Aske Olsson Extreme feedback is an incredibly powerful way to drive quality and accelerate your developer fast feedback loop. Having eXtreme Feedback Devices (XFDs) hooked up to your Jenkins jobs gives everyone on your team instant insight into the current software state. At customer after customer we’ve seen extreme feedback devices drive significant incremental productivity gains, so about a year...

Git plugin and TFS plugin are calling for interested parties to try out their 2.0 beta binaries before they get released. Git plugin 2.0 contains a major refactoring and UI simplifications, and TFS plugin contains a rewritten polling logic that does not require a workspace. If you think you’d benefit from these changes, please head to their respective beta testing page and try out the new...

Jenkins User Conference is back to California again! Just like the last two years, this full day event packs talks from Jenkins developers and users, and it would be a great opportunity for Jenkins users to get to know each other and share their experiences. The agenda is already posted, covering everything from robotics to mobile developments, effective management of Jenkins instances to branching techniques. I’m...

Seize the opportunity to join the Jenkins community! Just like last year, the Scandinavian Jenkins Conference will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, hosted by Praqma and sponsored by CloudBees, Sony, Switch::Gears, and PRQA. The open source community will gather on September 6th for a full day of networking and knowledge sharing at The Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. Based on last year’s success,...

+ Jenkins comes with the remoting library that it uses to communicate between a controller and agents. This is a pretty awesome library, I think, which served us well. One of the things this remoting layer does it to transfer the Java byte code on demand from the controller to agents on demand. This approach helps us keep agent deployment simple, as you don’t have to...