Interviews
An Interview with DNAnexus - Using Drone to Handle Multiple Petabytes of DNA information
We interviewed Dave Cadwallader, Site Reliability Architect; Steve Osazuwa, Bioinformatics Scientist; Bill Agee, SDET Team Lead and Maciej Adwent, Principal Software Engineer of DNAnexus about why they chose Drone as their CI/CD platform to handle multiple petabytes of DNA information. How does DNAnexus use Drone today? Does it support any public facing applications? When we started using Drone about a year ago, our most immediate need was to catch bugs earlier in the development process.…
Why We Chose Drone to Support Our 600 Deployments to Production Each Month
QuintoAndar is an app for landlords and renters tired of the bureaucracy of the traditional apartment rental process. The Brazilian startup screens apartment hunters, acts as a guarantor for those with solid credit histories and eliminates middlemen. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford MBA Graduates, QuintoAndar is now present in 15 cities in Brazil, including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. From Monolithic App to Microservices Our product was born in the cloud, but in the early years scaling our systems was not a huge concern.…
Arduino Uses Drone to Power Microservices on Kubernetes
An Interview with Luca Cipriani, Matteo Suppo and Edoardo Tenani We love Drone because on Jenkins we could not upgrade the Go version without impacting other projects (since Jenkins doesn’t do isolation or Docker by default). But with Drone we can upgrade Go per-project or even per-branch given the container-based approach. Drone is a huge step forward than Jenkins For those that don’t know, what is Arduino? Arduino is an open-source hardware, software, and content platform with a worldwide community of over 30 million active users.…
An Interview with Punit Agrawal, DevOps Lead @ eBay
How eBay uses Drone to deploy 200 Services to Kubernetes Punit leads the Devops team for the New Product Development Group at eBay, helping deploy microservices efficiently on Kubernetes. He has been front and center as eBay has transitioned to the public cloud. With the transition, Punit has been focusing on automation technologies to help eBay developer productivity. One of those tools is Drone, where eBay has 100 users using Drone for 200 services, releasing 15,000 times a quarter.…