"Continuous Integration - Does it scale?" My presentation at ACCU 2011 in Oxford (2011-04-16) explores whether Continuous Integration setups can scale across many commits / committers, many platforms, and many branches.

1. Continuous Integration
Does it scale?
Dirk Haun, ACCU 2011

2. CI is a good idea

3. Start early

4. CI Server

6. Platforms

7. 28

8. many many many
commits platforms branches

10. 20 Commits / Day
40
30
20
10

11. Quick
Check

12. "Don't check in
on a broken build"

14. Many platforms

15. Differences in compilers

16. Differences in test results

17. What's our
status?

18. That's not
so bad

19. Visualisation

20. 92 %
Better visualisation?

22. Multi-platform setup
isn't a problem

23. Keeping test cases
in sync

24. Visualisation
is a problem

25. Getting to an
all-green state

28. Move to The Cloud?

29. Illustration taken from the article "Großbaustelle", c't magazine 23/2009,
used with kind permission of Heise Zeitschriften Verlag

30. Unavoidable?

31. Conclusion?

35. So, does CI scale?

36. technically, yes

37. mind set -
not so much

38. Comments?

40. Credits
Windows 7 "elephants" illustration (slide #29)
(C) Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, used with permission
Jenkins logo by The FrontSide,
Traffic Lights clipart from clker.com,
Screenshots and infographics by Dirk Haun / Compart AG,
"all in the detial -1" (slide #16) by myles davidson from stock.xchng
All other photos from Flickr. In order of appearance:
"Forth Rail Bridge" by Bert Kaufmann,
"Chambered Nautilus Shell - detail" by Jitze Couperus,
"Little programmer" by Scott & Elaine van der Chijs,
"Lego Lib" by Dirk Haun,
"IBM System/360 Mainframe" by Erik Pitti,
"I Broke The Build" by Dirk Haun,
"Going nowhere fast" by Nathan E,
"broken glass 2" by Jussi,
"A Wild Question" by [F]oxymoron,
"Quality Street" by Richard Moross,
"El Libro del Dragón" by Javier Aroche,
"Changed Priorities Ahead sign" by Redvers,
"Quality Street ®" by Alex Brown,
"Synchronized Swimming Practice" by Jackie,
"AIDs and Cultural Drivers" by Eric Charlton,
"Alone" by Kevin Collins,
"theory" by Toshihiro Oimatsu,
"Clouds / Building" by Peter Kaminski,
"Fork in the road" by Kai Hendry,
"38/365 Puzzled" by Mykl Roventine,
"Server porn" by Paul Hammond, Presentation:
"Nicole" by Alessandro Valli, Dirk Haun
"entrevue radio" by Andréanne Germain,
"Thank You" by margherita j. l. lisoni for designfastidio