Continuous development through build tools and processes

Capability

To ensure we meet the modern demands for faster delivery, and to improve standards across our development lifecyle we use multiple build tools at all different stages to automate and improve our compilation, integration and testing pipelines. For our frontend we leverage gulp and webpack where we can to ensure local development is packaged correctly for integration. For our backend we use Jenkins and Bamboo to execute pipeline builds. For the cloud we use AWS Cloud formation to build infrastructure as a service.

To package our environments to ensure that configuration and deployments remain constant throughout, as well as provide a method for updating and testing configurations in isolation, we use docker to provision and manage setups inside our virtual machines.

Automation

CI/CD is almost a methodology itself, but in reality, it’s the process of automation that provides the value to ensure that our technology is delivered faster to a higher standard. Through automation we attain a level of standardization that increase the security and stability of the software. It also allows us to continually test and integrate and re-test to ensure that new features or changes do not negatively impact other parts of the code-base.