This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. For the first time at Jenkins World, the Jenkins project honored the achievement of three Jenkins contributors in the areas of Most Valuable Contributor, Jenkins Security MVP, and most Valuable Advocate. These three individuals has consistently demonstrated excellence and proven value to the project....

This is a guest post by Mark Waite, who maintains the git plugin, the git client plugin, and is a technical evangelist for CloudBees, Inc. The Jenkins project booth at Jenkins World 2017 will include the "Pull Requests Corner", recruiting new Jenkins contributors. We think there are many people who will attend the conference without realizing how easy it is to help the Jenkins project, and how much the help is...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. Jenkins World 2017 is a week away. Like last year, we are bringing back the lunch-time demos in the Jenkins project’s booth. These are quick 15 minute How-to demos by Jenkins experts. These demos will not be live streamed, nor recorded, so come early to...

This is a guest post by Guy Salton, Sr. Professional Services Engineer for CA BlazeMeter. Jenkins Pipeline is an important Jenkins feature for creating and managing a project in Jenkins. This is opposed to the traditional way of creating a Jenkins project by using the Jenkins GUI. When running your open-source load test, Jenkins Pipeline enables resilience, execution control, advanced logic and Version Control management. This blog post will explain...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. There are less than four weeks left until Jenkins World 2017. As usual, Jenkins World would not be complete without the Jenkins projects' "Ask the Experts". If you are new to Jenkins World, the Jenkins project booth will be located on the expo...

This is a guest post by Alvin Huang, DevOps Engineer at FireEye. As a security company, FireEye relentlessly protects our customers from cyber attacks. To act quickly on intelligence and expertise learned, the feedback loop from the front lines to features and capabilities in software must be small. Jenkins helps us achieve this by allowing us to build, test, and deploy to our hardware and software platforms faster, so...

This is a guest post by Mandy Hubbard, Software Engineer/QA Architect at Care.com. Imagine this: It’s 4:30pm on a Friday, you have a major release on Monday, and your Jenkins server goes down. It doesn’t matter if it experienced a hardware failure, fell victim to a catastrophic fat-finger error, or just got hit by a meteor - your Jenkins server is toast. How long did it take to perfect your Pipeline, all your...

This is a guest post by Kevin Burnett, DevOps Lead at Rosetta Stone. Have you experienced that thing where you make a change in an app, and when you go to check on the results of the build, you find an error that really doesn’t seem relevant to your change? And then you notice that your build is the first in over a year. And then you realize that...

This is a guest post by Luis Martínez de Bartolomé, Conan Co-Founder C and C++ are present in very important industries today, including Operating Systems, embedded systems, finances, research, automotive, robotics, gaming, and many more. The main reason for this is performance, which is critical to many of these industries, and cannot be compared to any other technology. As a counterpart, the C/C++ ecosystem has a few...

As in previous years, there’ll be a contributor summit at Jenkins World 2017: Let’s talk about the future of Jenkins and how you can help shape it! The contributor summit is the place where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This year, the theme is “working together”. Traditionally, most contributors are plugin maintainers focusing on their own plugins, but it’s...