When Patching Fast Isn't Fast Enough
You follow every best practice: repeatable environments, patch-on-command pipelines, zero technical debt. Your security processes are clear, rehearsed, and reliable...
Hardening the Open VSX Registry: Keeping it reliable at scale
Denis Roy, Head of Information Technology, Eclipse Foundation As the Open VSX ecosystem continues to grow, keeping the registry stable...
Before the Cloud: Eclipse Foundation’s Quiet Stewardship of Open Source Infrastructure
Long before the cloud era, the Eclipse Foundation quietly served as the backbone of open source stewardship. Its software, frameworks...
From Excess to Balance: The Collapse of All-You-Can-Eat
A few years ago, I noticed that things were changing in the Eclipse Foundation's (EF) IT operations: we were adding...
Moving Eclipse projects to GitHub and GitLab
In 2005, there weren't many hosted forge options for developers. At the time, the Eclipse Foundation used CVS, Bugzilla and...
Is software development Green?
The world is environmentally conscious like never before. The planet's resources are not endless, and the amount of waste that...
Bye Bye 'build' : the end of an era
build:~ # halt That's the last command anyone will ever type on the venerable "build.eclipse.org" server. Born in 2005, it...
Choosing servers for Kubernetes
The Eclipse Foundation jumped on the Kubernetes bandwagon a few years ago, for the same reasons as everyone else. Our...
Why Vendor Neutrality is important
We're seeing a trend of free (as in beer) resources being discontinued, or altered, with very little time provided to...
Postmortem - February 7 storage and authentication outage
On Friday, February 7 2020, Eclipse.org suffered a severe service disruption to many of its web properties when our primary...
Anatomy of a server failure
Last Friday, Feb 7 at around 12:30pm (Ottawa time), I received a notification from Fred Gurr (part of our release...
Running a CI system is hard? It doesn't have to be.
At EclipseCon Europe 2019 I attended a very interesting talk entitled " CI systems need care, too! Here's how we...