Tom Haddon

Tom Haddon

9 posts

Codetree Collect Info

We recently landed a feature in Codetree that I’m pretty excited about. Codetree is a tool for collecting code from various locations and assembling it in a...

Scaling out ubuntu.com for 16.04 release

On release day for Ubuntu, the amount of traffic to ubuntu.com increases significantly. Comparing the amount of hits the website received on release day for...

Mojo Updates

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Mojo, and since then, there have been quite a few changes. I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of...

Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including...

Giving developers production access without revealing secrets

It’s a classic trade off in the devops world: On the one hand you want to give developers access to production systems so that they can see how their services...

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled part 3

This is the third in a series of three articles about Mojo. In the first article we introduced Mojo, and in the second article we took a closer look at...

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled part 2

In the previous post we introduced Mojo. Today we’re going to take a closer look at how it all fits together. mojo run is the most often used command. As a...

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled

In Canonical’s IS Department we use Juju for service orchestration. It’s a great tool for quickly spinning up complex services, tying them together and...

ScalingStack: 2x performance in Launchpad’s build farm with OpenStack

Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects, and it includes a build service with over 11,000...