FlowCon: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Design and Lean Product Development
Over the past few years, Ancestry.com has been moving toward agile development methods. In fact, that’s the main reason I joined the company three years ago. Since starting at the company, I have...
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How Ancestry.com Practices Agile to Solve Challenges with Consumer DNA Testing
A typical web application starts with a blank page. Then in further sprints, you can add features to it. (I sound like one of your Agile coaches, don’t I?) But in reality, the business needs you to...
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Adventures in Big Data: How AncestryDNA Uses Hadoop and HBase
I recently had the opportunity to present the story of the Ancestry.com DNA pipeline project at the Utah Big Mountain Conference put on by Utah Geek Events. It really is a great story: It has a unique...
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Ancestry.com to Present at QConSF
Like many organizations, Ancestry.com is constantly accumulating more high volume, high velocity data of all kinds. We apply innovation at scale to handle 10 petabytes of highly dynamic family history...
View ArticleFeatured Article: Migration to Continuous Delivery at Ancestry.com
Starting with the adoption of Agile development practices, Ancestry.com has progressed to a continuous delivery model to enable code release whenever the business requires it. Transitioning from large,...
View ArticleMigrating From TFS to Git-based Repositories (Part I)
Git, a distributed revision control and source code management system has been making waves for years, and many software houses have been slowly adopting this system as not only their source code...
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Migrating From TFS to Git-based Repositories (II)
Previously, I wrote about why Git-based repositories have become popular and why TFS users ought to migrate to Git. In this article, I would like to take a stab at providing a quick guide for longtime...
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Big Data for Developers at Ancestry
Big Data has been all the craze. Business, marketing and project managers like it because they can plot out trends to make decisions. To us developers, Big Data is just a bunch of logs. In this blog...
View ArticleLesson Learned: Sharing Code With Git Submodule
You are probably aware of Git Submodules. If you haven’t, you may want to read about it from Atlassian and Git itself. In summary, Git provides a way to embed a reference to a separate project within a...
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The Ancestry “Magnetic Containment Field” meets Docker
In the TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the magnetic containment field prevents contact of antimatter with normal matter in a warp core. If the field were to collapse or fall below 15% of...
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