Welcome to Part 2 of an ongoing series on the gitflow-helper-maven-plugin, and how to leverage it to simplify your CI configuration, artifact management, and deployment solution. Once again I’m going to be terse, and try to provide you with a bare-bones, step by step recipe to get going quickly with Jenkins, Bitbucket Server (Formerly Stash), and Nexus OSS. Part 1 of this series contained the introduction of the gitflow-helper-maven-plugin as a means of teaching Maven how to behave for building… [continue]
Gitflow, Maven, and CI Done Right: Part 1 – Teaching Maven New Tricks
Hi, I’m Bryan. This is my first blog post for E-g. I wanted it to be memorable. I wanted it to be epic. I wanted it to be informative. I wanted to convey how much time I’ve spent over the years looking for an elegant and functional method of creating a single Jenkins CI build job for a gitflow managed Maven project that would do the right thing for each environment without any of the technical tradeoffs I consider unsavory…. [continue]
Data Analytics
E-gineering partnered with a client to rebuild the reporting framework for their telephone voice response system. Their telephone response system functions differently than the traditional “voice mail” system of phone interaction and allows for a more natural and varied conversation with the user. As such they had some unique client data reporting requirements. The prior reporting solution involved batch processing production data every night to create Excel spreadsheets that were e-mailed out the following morning. While functional, the existing system… [continue]