+ This is a guest post by https://twitter.com/dvaske[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...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Testing22222.jpg[image,width=150,height=160] + + + + https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Git+plugin+2.0+beta+testing[Git plugin] and https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/TFS+plugin+2.0+beta+testing[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...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Palo_Alto%2C_CA_welcome_sign.JPG/180px-Palo_Alto%2C_CA_welcome_sign.JPG[image] + + + + 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. + + + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-palo-alto.cb[The agenda is already posted], covering everything from robotics to mobile developments, effective...

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,...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloride[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Calcium_chloride_CaCl2.jpg/320px-Calcium_chloride_CaCl2.jpg[image]] + + + + Jenkins comes with https://github.com/jenkinsci/remoting[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...

+ https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel.cb[Jenkins User Conference in Israel] was held this year on a different venue than the last year, because we have grown! I believe Shlomi Ben-Haim of JFrog said in his opening speech that the attendance has grown more than 50%, despite the ticket price increase. + + + This year, the event was held at a former Kibbutz turned into an event facility. This was...

This Wednesday’s Jenkins office hours is all about the Git plugin refactoring that’s going on. Git plugin is one of the most popular plugins out there, and it’s been around for quite some time. Combine that with the fact that there are so many different ways to use Git, it was inevitable that Git plugin became quite a capable but complex plugin over time. It...

+ As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. + + + While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads lying...