dave dash

Previously I covered, at a high level, how our builds work and what toolswe used. I wanted toexplain what exactly we are doing a during a deploy especially when it comes totracking state. It's the one area where there aren't a lot of good off theshelf...

Previously we discussed what tools Pinterest uses for deploys. Thisarticle shows how we connect them to one another in order to create a"pipeline."
In practice, Pinterest is a continuous delivery shop. That means at any giventime we are able to serve the latest code our engineers have deemed ready. Inpractical terms that means we can create features and fix bugs and deliver themto pinners in the...

We have a fairly flexible Continuous Delivery system at Pinterest. The toolswe use are fairly accessible, so you can build your own Continuous Deliverysystem too.
Github Enterprise is our version-control overlay. Itmanages code-reviews, facilitates code-merging and most importantlyhas a great API. The API let's us interact with our repository ina very clean programatic way. For example we tag each deploy in git...

Automatic versioning of python packages with Jenkins
I maintain a few internal python libraries at Pinterest, and for some of them, we try to maintain properly versioned pip packages. There's no real method to my madness of versioning things, I start with 0.1 and if I need to make changes that require...