Incredibuild 10 is a spectacular tool that provides a way of increasing the speed of compilation and other development-related tasks. It shortens the time to develop and deliver products and transforms the developers’ workflow.
Incredibuild 10 lets its users fasten the code builds, testing, and deployment process. It harnesses the power of idle CPUs across your local network or the public cloud. And it turns your ordinary workstations into a supercomputing powerhouse equipped with hundreds of cores and abundant memory. With its advanced features and capabilities, Incredibuild 10 takes software development to the next level. It empowers teams to achieve faster results without compromising on quality.
Build cache:
The new patent-pending feature of the build cache is very beneficial and, combined with virtualized distributed processing, also provides unparalleled acceleration power. It allows its users to store data about the build outputs after completing it once. The Build cache lets you reuse it when someone needs to perform a similar build and re-build a previous version of your current software. It significantly saves your time by just adding new changes, instead of starting from scratch every time. However, you can utilize Build cache for the following purposes.
1. Faster dev builds:
Incredibuild 10 facilitates its users to reuse outputs generated on later CI builds and workflows. Rather than incorporating every single change to make while restarting the version control. It means you can quickly do QA or fix critical errors that may emerge while transforming from one version to another. In addition, you can fix and restore previous versions, and work without halting the complete CI pipeline.
2. Use of cache data between CI builds:
With Incredibuild 10, you can easily share results created by Build Cache to different devices. CI build is quite efficient. It allows a development team to complete the build across the team and benefit everyone. Hence, the development team can get faster reviews and make alterations on time, saving you money on CI resources. Thus, you can enjoy fewer commits in a build and can point out code changes quickly.
3. Switching branches has become easier:
Normally, switching branches leads a developer to start the whole build from scratch or start over, even if he wants to move to a previously completed stage. However, incredible allows you to store previous build data and lets you cut down local build times if you want to go back to the previous step and edit that.
4. Work anywhere:
Remote work is a new reality, and while it may be easier for some departments. But for development teams, it’s a real problem. Sometimes one is working on a large build or is rendering an entire section of a videogame for testing. And a home PC cannot provide the power it may have at the office. Fortunately, Incredibuild Cloud and Build Cache allow for the size of the build to be reduced and provide you with the tools that will let you build and do your work as fast no matter from where.
5. Cost:
More importantly, with Build Cache and Incredibuild Cloud, there is only one problem your IT team will bring you monthly which is – your cloud bills. Incredibluild Cloud and Build cache allow for better control of your resources needs and your cloud instances rather than just bringing them up and keeping them alive. They allow you to cut the quantity of resource requirements and properly store or manage them when they are not in demand.
True core flexibility with Incredible 10 Smart licenses:
Another key component of Incredibuild 10 is the ability to make development even more unique – truly freeing developers from the rigid dev linear process and allowing them to concentrate on the actual creation. Instead of having to think about how many licenses you have, or on which devices they have been applied, you are free to think of how to get the most out of available resources, and where they are located.
Smart licenses in Incredibuild 10 offer features to create core pools where everyone in an organization can use them; it even allows creating groups so that some teams always have access to ready-to-be-used cores and licenses in any instance. This way, people can be more productive for the given amount of resources, control their costs better on-premise as well as in the cloud, and perform at the same level, while using fewer cores. Why should you care?
· Go zero-waste with your cores
Rather than having licenses going to waste or cores idle while a few developers of our team struggle to meet a deadline, everything you have on demand can be optimized and assigned to the appropriate individual.
· Empower Your Teams with Dynamic Resource Allocation:
As evident there is no such need to play core accountant. However, one can end up letting the needs of a team, your team in this instance, determine how those resources are utilized. Does your QA team require more cores in their work on Tuesdays? That is not an issue you can deal with it efficiently now. Does your team of C++ developers require a compile capability by mid-weekday every week? You can set the cores aside to create a dedicated pool for them to use only.
· Monitor Your Resource Usage
They often say that visibility is not necessarily blind, that it cuts both ways. It’s not just about what is being seen as being used – which is again one of the aspects of Incredibuild 10. It’s also about knowing what areas are lacking so they can be strengthened and what barriers are holding things back. Fortunately, smart licenses allow you to achieve all of the above simultaneously. What is good here can be seen, where there are problems, and the used can be balanced with the new.
In CI, time is money, and time lost is something that you will have to work for later. So why waste time with complex deployments or installations? This is because Incredibuild allows anyone to get set up in a few minutes and start working on whatever they’re building right away. All you need is to deploy the Incredibuild agent to all devices in your organization and set up your coordinator, and you’re ready to go to the acceleration derby. Really, it’s that simple.
