Sean Blanton has worked for Catalyst Systems Corporation for over 8 years. He has been an onsite configuration management consultant and taken the knowledge learned from customers to help develop, support and sell Openmake build management software. In the course of his work with the services side of Catalyst he has helped over 100 companies manage software change processes and builds (particularly). He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and a BS from Columbia University.
Developing under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is different from
traditional development. A large set of business changes will now be funneled
through a relatively small number of enterprise services. An inefficient or
bad build system can impact a greater number of business changes. As services
are exposed to more consumers and so to more potential threats having a
robust and secure development environment is more important than ever.
Centralized role-based control of builds and reporting of build activities is
critical for incorporating a greater number of changes and managing the
security and auditability of Web Services.
Build management is a critical operation for transitioning to an enterprise
application environment modeled on SOA. Achieving a repeatable application
lifecycle that is efficient and secure is strongly influenced by how well the
build m... (more)
Sean Blanton has worked for Catalyst Systems Corporation for over 8 years. He has been an onsite configuration management consultant and taken the knowledge learned from customers to help develop, support and sell Openmake build management software. In the course of his work with the services side of Catalyst he has helped over 100 companies manage software change processes and builds (particularly). He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and a BS from Columbia University.
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