In the Developer Interview series we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This time, we spoke to Emile Vauge, the creator of an open source project, Traefik.
Category Software Engineering
Top 10 Semaphore Posts in 2017
At Semaphore, we’re always looking for new ways to improve our continuous integration service, as well as share ideas and articles that help developers make software development and continuous delivery faster, smarter and easier. Last week, we published an overview of what were some of the most popular open source language versions used in commercial […]
Testing Angular 2 and Continuous Integration with Jest
Introduction Angular is one of the most popular front-end frameworks around today. Developed by Google, it provides a lot of functionality out of the box. Like its predecessor, AngularJS, it was built with testing in mind. By default, Angular is made to test using Karma and Jasmine. There are, however, some drawbacks to using the […]
Semaphore CLI: Forming a Base for a Programmable Semaphore
Being able to control your CI pipeline programmatically, tweak and bend it to your will, is a huge benefit for both small and large organizations.
Easy Continuous Deployment for Firebase using Semaphore
Firebase has you covered when it comes to building and architecting your app, but what about deploying your projects onto Firebase? Until now that’s been a manual process done via firebase-tools (the command-line interface for Firebase), but now we can use the power of Semaphore to create an entirely automated continuous deployment process.
Node.js Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017
The Node community is constantly expanding and enterprises are adding it to their stacks, because they can use the same language throughout the entire stack. This year, the Node.js Foundation released the results of a survey which identified how and on which projects people use it. One thing they haven’t covered are the versions of […]
Track Total Weekly CI/CD Waiting Time with Speed Insights
Building and shipping new features is hard work, and having something that blocks you during that process can be agonizing. Having a healthy workflow that doesn’t limit you is crucial when progressing your code from development to production.
Ruby Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017
The Ruby community is famous for fast development of greenfield projects and quick acceptance of new concepts. However, it’s worth noting that a lot of mature projects such as GitHub, Shopify and Basecamp also operate with Ruby at their core. Every year we take the opportunity to check which versions of Ruby are used for […]
Continuous Delivery of Laravel Applications to Heroku
In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at Laravel applications and how to deploy them to Heroku. We will also set up Semaphore for continuous integration and deployment. Continuous integration is very important as it helps us make sure our test suite still passes after making changes to our code. Let’s get started. Prerequisites A Heroku […]
PHP Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017
PHP has been one of the top 10 most used languages for years, and it’s present on the server-side for the majority of websites accessible today. In this post, we’ll share with you our annual analysis of PHP versions used in commercial projects on Semaphore’s hosted Continuous Integration service. The majority of projects are using […]
Rails Testing Grader: Compare Your Test Suite to the Industry
Being able to compare the way you’re working to rest of the industry is usually both interesting and useful. This is why we created Rails Testing Grader, a new tool backed by anonymous, real-world data from Semaphore that lets you compare the state of your test suite and CI build to Ruby on Rails projects […]
Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017
Out of all programming communities, Python’s is the fastest growing one. Same as previous year, we’ll take the opportunity to check which Python versions are used for building real-world applications on Semaphore’s hosted CI service.
Integration Testing Your HTTP API with Cucumber
Learn how to write behaviour-driven development tests for your HTTP API using Cucumber, so that the entire business can benefit from them.
Cancellation Strategy for the Default Branch
We’re happy to announce a new feature for a better control of your build queue — queued and started build cancellation strategy that ignores your default branch.
Test-Driving a Stream-powered Elixir Library
In this tutorial, we will test-drive an Elixir library and refactor it to leverage streams, while learning about Umbrella apps and handy testing techniques.