Oakland eBIG hosting kaChing to talk about Continuous Deployment
Next Wednesday July 21st we will be presenting our continuous deployment system at eBIG in Oakland. During this presentation, I’ll focus on three aspects. Business value of continuous deployment; And how it fits into the Lean Startup principles. kaChing’s implementation of continuous deployment: testing, deployment manager, immune system Lastly, I’ll cover our step by step… Read more
SiliconValley CodeCamp 2010
If your’re interested in one or more of the following topics: Lean Startups, Extreme testing, DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Scala, ZooKeeper and Practical Compilers Techniques, join the kaChing team in the next Silicon Valley Code Camp. If you’re interested in some of the talks please log into the site and mark “Interested”. Applying Compiler Techniques to… Read more
Murder Your Darlings
Lately I’ve been working on connectivity with NASDAQ. The protocols involve parsing fixed-offset messages of various types. We’re not doing high frequency trading so we are optimizing for programmer efficiency — that is, the API I expose to the rest of the system should make sense, so I’m representing the different types of messages, trading… Read more
Mimicking Abstract Classes with Objective-C
Objective-C doesn’t have the abstract class construct. The common approach to mimic it is to use NSObject’s doesNotRecognizeSelector: @interface ShapeBase : NSObject {} – (void)draw { [self doesNotRecognizeSelector:_cmd]; } @end @interface Circle : ShapeBase {} // missing draw method @end This forces subclasses to override, otherwise you get a runtime exception. There’s also another approach… Read more
Happy 30,000 Commits, kaChing
Vlad made our 30,000th commit this afternoon! I’m thinking there has to be a dancing bear e-card for this somewhere on the internet. Congrats!
Iterate Like a Whirling Dervish
Many thanks to the Lean Startup Circle SF for having me talk about continuous deployment. Slides will come momentarily. Continuous Deployment at LSC w/ KaChing from David Binetti on Vimeo. Update: and here are the slides. View more presentations from Pascal-Louis Perez.