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Infrastructure Change - Enter CircleCI
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
In my never ending quest to try all the tools, and also to get things as automated as possible, I have recently started playing with CircleCI. I have used Jenkins quite a bit, and it is really the kitchen-sink when it comes to CI with plug-ins and tools for just about everything. But just a few days ago I had a really weird break within Jenkins that was stopping me from deploying new changes. This, plus the fact that one of the engineers at my current gig was showering CicleCI with praise, made me take a second look at it. …
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New Job, New Infrastructure
Thursday, May 11, 2017
I started a new job a few months ago as a full time DevOps engineer for a non-profit. After doing the large corporate thing for a while, I grew tired of the bureaucracy and the (frankly) bullshit and decided it was time to move back to a smaller team who was more focused on the technology and providing a good service, than focusing on ROI for stockholders. So here I am, it’s been a few months and I couldn’t be happier! I am about to embarq on a very large infrastructure project for this new company, and figured it was time to also update my personal blog so I could chronicle what I’ve learned in the process. Well, updating for me really means starting fresh, all new hosting, all new content. …