DevOps

We’ve talked about sorting out a VPN connection for Sauce Employees for a long time. The main reason is that creating a AWS Security Group set up for individual employee remote IP addresses is a lot of management.

I’ve been reviewing a few things recently around how we are not only using Elixir at Sauce, but also how we are deploying and hosting it.

Tests Are Lame but they don’t have to be Ever since i started working with CircleCi at Sauce it bothered me that we don’t use what it has to offer to the fullest and this is especially so with tests circleCi has this really neat way of showing test results as shown below despite how nice doing this looks it also has another really useful feature it allows you to do splitting and parallelism on jobs this means jobs but specifically, a test can be split across say 4 machines and split up by the time it took to run the tests.

In the process of trying to fix a bug with one of our projects, it became apparent that the system had become depleted and reached its end of life on the newest Mac version.

CircleCI Images CircleCI provides quite a few convenience images in order to speed up the build process. These are generally fairly robust images that will cover most cases.

CircleCI is a really useful tool for ensuring that your builds go through correctly, that all the libraries and dependencies are accessible and compatible when building clean, and so on.