P4 Blog
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June 07, 2011
by Alexandra Weber Morales
How does Google do it with just one server?Audience members at the 2011 Perforce User Conference listened intently as Dan Bloch, a senior site reliability engineer at Google, explained how they run the busiest single Perforce server on the planet – for 12,000 users – not to mention one of the largest repositories in any source control system.
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June 06, 2011
by Alexandra Weber Morales
Nothing cements customer loyalty like coming through for them in a pinch. That’s what happened when Perforce support and development was able to implement a reference solution for Research in Motion (RIM) in just two weeks.
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June 03, 2011
by Alexa Weber Morales, Perforce Correspondent
Is stealth good or bad? Apparently, it depends on who's checking out files. About a year and a half ago, Perforce began exploring how to unplug Perforce to function in a distributed manner, where connectivity was spotty or privacy made sense. P4Sandbox's Private Local Branching lets developers work on their own local copy of a project without the isolation of a traditional DVCS.
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June 03, 2011
by Alexandra Weber Morales
Nick Poole (left) and Tony Smith (right).The cloud is a concept no ISV or IT department can avoid these days. Perforce and its customers are no exception.
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June 02, 2011
by Sam Stafford
In an earlier blog post, I talked a bit about the new integrate engine and some of the new functionality available in 2010.2 with the undoc '-3' flag. Of particular interest to many users was the fact that you could integrate into a codeline where a bunch of files had been moved/renamed/refactored and your source changes would automatically get merged into the right files.
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June 02, 2011
by Alexandra Weber Morales
It’s a complex, dynamic production environment that has stringent uptime requirements, is run by a five-person team on 9,000 servers and incorporates software development artifacts and processes from multiple companies. Did we mention it’s highly audited and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission?
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