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Note Taking App

Submitted By Jenkins User Thibaut Le Levier
When it was time to build a large CI platform to support rapid app development, the engineers at this software company turned to Jenkins.
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Organization: Global note taking app solution, based in France. **Industry:** Software Apps
Programming Languages: C/C++Java, Swift Objective-C, C# **Platform** : Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, Windows
Version Control System: BitBucket Server
Build Tools: Ant, Gradle
Community Support: Jenkins.io websites & blogs, networking at Jenkins event, and spoke with colleagues and peers

Building a large CI platform to support app development.

Background: This technology company offers a note-taking app that understands any handwritten content. It is deployed in hundreds of millions of touch screens globally; in mobile devices, vehicles, interactive whiteboards, etc. For that, this tech team needed a large continuous integration platform to support its large user base, multiple translations, and to accelerate feature releases at scale.

Goals: Build a large CI platform to support note-taking applications and character recognition.

Solution & Results: To create our CI platform, we relied on several Jenkins instances, many build nodes, and top-of-the-line hardware. The Jenkins capabilities deployed included node managements, many plugins, and pipeline jobs.

Jenkins helps us to manage many nodes at a large scale. It also yielded great results, including:

Jenkins helps us to manage many nodes at a large scale.
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Thibaut Le Levier, CI Engineer
  • quicker builds
  • better node management
  • pipelines