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Denis Roy

Head of Information Technology at Eclipse Foundation

I'm the Head of IT for the Eclipse Foundation. I am privileged to work with the most interesting and dynamic community of software professionals for over 20 years.

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    Hardening the Open VSX Registry: Keeping it reliable at scale

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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?

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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

    Denis Roy

    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.

    Denis Roy

    At EclipseCon Europe 2019 I attended a very interesting talk entitled " CI systems need care, too! Here's how we...

    Eclipse CBI - Common Build Infrastructure changes

    Denis Roy

    The Eclipse CBI, which traces its roots back to 2006, has undergone some important changes recently, including a new Kubernetes+Docker-powered...

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