> On Dec 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Chaos Golubitsky <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Dec, 2013 at 07:12:14 -0800, Corey Quinn wrote: >> >> What are you developing at this scale that would have serious >> performance issues? Most intro to programming type classes don't get >> into performance intensive stuff until much later. > > That's not the problem --- the webservice itself is small, but people > like to use big tools for development.
If they can run those locally on whatever they have, the next step would be a VCS to get that code to AWS or similar. > The part i'm trying to find a > good solution for is the interface between a person sitting at a keyboard > (of some old, diverse piece of hardware, with diverse expectations about > development tools) and a test environment for that person which will > most likely yield code that also runs when other people try it. > > Right now, we write unit tests which will run well on Ubuntu that we've > configured to run under AWS or virtualbox, the unit tests don't run > on everyone's desktops because of path issues, dependencies, database > credentials, etc, so people either complain (and we debug the unit tests > for every environment) or don't test code. Meet my friend Jenkins. :-) Have it watch the VCS from a central (beefy) point and run builds against student commits? > > Chaos > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
