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About francisu

VP, Architecture at Talend, overall responsible for product architecture and governance. Also maintainer of the Jenkins EC2 plugin.

Shifting the Power – Ending Police Traffic Stop Oppression

Posted on July 8, 2016 by francisu

I sit in my room at the Pact camp. This camp is a significant conference about people (mostly white as it turns out) who adopt people of color. One of the issues that is discussed quite a bit is the … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 plugin – 1.30 Released

Posted on January 24, 2016 by francisu

A significant bug fix release was made in the plugin, thanks to all to helped test it and provided contributions. The next release will probably be in the next month or so and will include the acceptance of enhancement PRs … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 Plugin Release 1.30

Posted on January 12, 2016 by francisu

I have just finished a bunch of work on this plugin to fix a number of bugs related to starting instances and respecting instance caps for spot instances. The plugin will now restart a stopped instance and always respect the … Continue reading →

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Moving to a Mac

Posted on May 20, 2013 by francisu

With my new gig at Talend I have requested a MacBook Pro as a company computer, thinking that since I’m now an architect I will have to do more writing and (god forbid) slides. Of course I will continue to develop … Continue reading →

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Now at Talend

Posted on May 20, 2013 by francisu

After many years of leading Oakland Software to develop really good data transformation technology, I have moved to a new phase, having sold these assets to Talend. A little while ago, I joined Talend as a Senior Architect responsible for data … Continue reading →

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Jenkins EC2 work

Posted on May 20, 2013 by francisu

About a year ago, I have gotten involved pretty extensively in the Jenkins EC2 plugin where I’m now the maintainer. This was motivated by wanting to move my company’s (Oakland Software — now mostly part of Talend) build process to … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on the Java u21 problem

Posted on July 15, 2010 by francisu

I see all of the platform UI bugs and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514 caught my attention and I have made several comments on it. I thought I would share my observations and suggestions at this point, being a member of the Eclipse community. Observations: … Continue reading →

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MercurialEclipse and Andrei the “handle it” dude

Posted on May 16, 2010 by francisu

As I posted previously I was having real trouble with hg and MercurialEclipse. It turns out a lot of my problems with slowness in decorator updating and startup with Eclipse were related to the number of projects (and maybe size) … Continue reading →

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Sadly, converting from Subversion to Mercurial *almost* failed (revised)

Posted on May 14, 2010 by francisu

(Since posting this I’m more encouraged and I am keeping going, in fact I have now committed to the switch — there are some serious performance problems for my large repo, but given the responsiveness of the HgEclipse folks I … Continue reading →

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CNF Testing for 3.5.2 – Please test your projects

Posted on January 19, 2010 by francisu

If you are a project that uses the Common Navigator/Project Explorer, please be sure and test over the next week with the 3.5.2 RC2 build.  A few critical fixes have gone into the CNF and we need to know sooner … Continue reading →

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