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Grafana chart of the performance of a Large Jenkins Controller under real-world workloads

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How DevOps Eliminates Silos

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hosted or self hosted jenkins

Manage Jenkins like a Pro

Heroku as inspiration

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the microservices dilemma

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Jenkins on the beach

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Tas Skoudros

A cartoon depicting a scrum meeting, where the delivery manager proposes choosing hosted Jenkins

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managed service vs saas

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CTA/Managed Jenkins Service

We’re excited to announce that on Sunday, 3rd August 2025, we’ll be upgrading our managed Jenkins controllers from version 2.504.2 to 2.516.1.

Post / Jenkins Upgrade: 2.516.1 – Rolling Out 3rd August 2025

Is a Managed Service by Servana similar to a SaaS? In this post we assess any similarities and differences enabling you to conclude.

Post / Is a Managed Service vs SaaS CI

Kubernetes is cloud-native, the CNCF has projects that help eliminate vendor lock-in at the application layer but these increase the management overhead.

Post / The Kubernetes Dilemma

We explore the human side of DevOps and discuss why culture is so important in achieving success. This is based on our own experience.

Post / What is a DevOps Culture?

Jenkins software a automation server that enables developers to build, test and refine their source code in the most efficient way possible. We install it.

Post / Installing Jenkins Software v1

An organisation is like a machine. It has parts that need to work together to achieve a desired outcome. How can DevOps help you improve this process?

Post / How DevOps eliminates constraints within silos

Heroku created a frictionless environment that made it easy to develop, test, and deploy applications to environments without maintenance headaches.

Post / Heroku as Inspiration

Using microservices makes it easier for you to leverage more cloud native services within your application architecture.

Post / The Microservices Dilemma

Is it possible to re-platform a monolithic application to a platform like Kubernetes? What are the biggest drawbacks to containerising a monolith?

Post / Re-platforming a Monolithic Application to Kubernetes

As something I'm quite passionate about, I can discuss the developer experience endlessly and well I generally struggle to shut up about it.

Post / How I improve the Developer Experience

We focus on why DevOps practices are so important. Practices like infrastructure as code, pipelines for Automation, security, CICD and monitoring.

Post / What are the key components of a DevOps practice

This post is a step-by-step guide to the questions to ask when deciding between hosted and self-hosted Jenkins for a project. 

Post / Hosted Jenkins or Self-Hosted Jenkins v1

There are millions of frustrated software developers working in organisations with suboptimal developer experiences. We look at the 3 major causes.

Post / Top 3 reasons for a bad developer experience

Managing Jenkins is not trivial but with a few techniques you can go from absolute newbie to competent Jenkins Administrator.

Posts / Pro tips for Managing Jenkins v1

In 2024, why do we still use Jenkins Software? If modern software development teams require the integration of more third party tools in there CICD. 

Post / Why do we still use Jenkins Software in 2024 v1

We benchmark all our Jenkins controllers to give each customer a guaranteed performance service level. We review the benchmarks for the Large Controller.

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