Software Build and Release Specialist

Latest Entries
Apr 16

Release Management Access Control

Access Control, at first glance seems to be a rather straight forward topic or task to handle.  Well, I can assure you it is not.  Especially when you’re working in an Engineering organization that seems to be schizophrenic at times in terms of its own unique identity.   I’m talking about how there should be [...]

Apr 14

Build Reproducibility Problem

I’ve seen a lot of organizations running into this problem such that their build environment gets to a point where it is so complicated that the best way to preserve it is through archiving the image.  I’m talking about archiving the entire build machine using image tools such as Norton Ghost, VMWare, or Microsoft [...]

Jan 15

The Burnout Factor As a Build and Release Engineer

Software Build and Release has such a hectic schedule–sometimes you just can’t help it but to get caught in it all and get burned out.  Aside from a successful proposal of a new build and release infrastructure and getting all the development teams on board, the headache starts when the implementation and back-to-back release schedule [...]