Luke Kilpatrick talks about “gitStream (Way Faster ColdFusion Git Merging)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

"We'll talk about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream."

Show notes

What is Git?

Why should all CFers be using it?

Top CF source control software

GitHub was is made by Microsoft now

GitLabs

What are Branches, Pull Requests and Merges

Branches of the code tree

Code edit conflicts - merge required

Most edits in different parts of the code base usually don’t need a merge with humans

Risk of breaking the build

CI - Continuous Integration

CD - Continuous development - automated testing (TDD)

Pull request (PR) is the request to do the merge + code review

More rapid deployment cycles on the cloud

Why do Merges suck in most companies?

Waiting on humans to do the code review, who is best to review this change? 

Getting up to speed on that particular part of the code and why the change was made

How does gitStream help? 

It analyses the pull request

Uses CM YAML file to decide

Types of change

Small change - auto-approve

Standard change - who will review

Critical change - to core code

Who is the best person to review

Tags the PR

Compare to triage at hospital ER department

Ideal

Small branches

Fast PRs

PR 100% faster (average time from 7 days to 3.5 days)

Visibility and statistics on merge times

gitStream features

Triage of PRs

Estimated time to review

Works with VS Code

Stateful labels, color coding

What does gitStream cost? 

gitStream is free for all

Reporting etc is free for upto 8 developers

Paid Entreprise features beyond this

https://linearb.io/pricing/ 

Hack-tober fest support for spam PRs

Is this just for commercial repos or can open source projects use it too? Any GitHub hosted repo

Both

Install

GitHub marketplace

Roadmap

Adding to GitLabs, BitBucket etc

VS Code extension

Mentioned in this episode

gitStream

Continuous Merge, a way to categorize and speed up code reviews on GitHub

Hacktoberfest and gitStream 

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Bio

Luke Kilpatrick

Luke Kilpatrick started as a web developer in 1996, transitioning to building developer programs in 2010 with VMware. He has led or worked on developer experience teams at Sencha, Atlassian, Nutanix, Hazelcast and now at LinearB, working to improve the developer experience and speed up code reviews. Luke has managed and spoken at developer events worldwide, with highlights being Atlassian Appweek, Nutanix .NEXT, DevRelCon and /Data's Future Developer Summit. He lives in California, where he spends his spare time, on or under the ocean.

 

Links

LinkedIn 

Twitter

Email: [email protected] 

 

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:02

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Luke Kilpatrick. And we're going to be talking about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream. And we'll get into that in a moment. But first, if you don't know, look, he's been doing Cold Fusion for years, nearly

Luke Kilpatrick 0:22

two decades, right? Yeah. Yeah. A long time.

Michaela Light 0:25

Yeah. And you started off doing web development even before that, when the web hardly even existed in 1996. And right now, you do you lead the developer experience team at Linear B. And you've done that developer relations role at quite a few companies. So

Luke Kilpatrick 0:46

yeah, I've been doing developer relations, but last 1012 years, cold fusion has always been sort of one of my first loves. And that's what got me into doing web development.