Speeding Release Cycles and Overcoming Regulatory Hurdles with CloudBees CI CASE STUDY When I started coding in 1990, there were no source or access control tools. Developers had individual copies of source code on their computers, which they manually shared and merged with the work of their peers. Automation wasn’t a part of the conversation, either. At the time, I was part of a company called Fellesdata. I helped cobble together a GUI-based source control system—built atop a file-based version control system —that sorted sources into projects and modules. This project was the start of automating daily builds and was a crude predecessor of today’s CI systems, but it wasn’t robust, and we eventually abandoned the project. Over 30 years of mergers and acquisitions later, we evolv

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