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Abhyudaya Sharma

Abhyudaya is a Computer Science student at Shiv Nadar University, India. He is participating in Google Summer of Code 2019 to improve the performance of the Role Strategy Plugin.

Trip to DevOps World | Jenkins World

I had the privilege of being invited to DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for presenting the work I did during Google Summer of Code 2019. What follows is a day-by-day summary of an amazing trip to the conference. Day 0: December 1, 2019 I am an undergraduate student from New Delhi, India and had traveled to Lisbon to attend the conference. I had an early...

Abhyudaya Sharma February 7, 2020
Performance Improvements to Role Strategy Plugin

The task for my Google Summer of Code program was to improve the performance of the Role Strategy Plugin. The performance issues for Role Strategy Plugin had been reported multiple times on Jenkins JIRA. With a large number of roles and with complex regular expressions, a large slow-down was visible on the Web UI. Even before GSoC started, there were a number of patches...

Abhyudaya Sharma August 26, 2019
Introducing new Folder Authorization Plugin

During my Google Summer of Code Project, I have created the brand new Folder Auth Plugin for easily managing permissions to projects organized in folders from the Folders plugin. This new plugin is designed for fast permission checks with easy-to-manage roles. The 1.0 version of the plugin has just been released and can be downloaded from your Jenkins' Update center. This plugin was inspired by the...

Abhyudaya Sharma August 16, 2019
Micro-benchmarking Framework for Jenkins Plugins

I have been working on improving the performance of the Role Strategy Plugin as a part of my Google Summer of Code project. Since there was no existing way to measure performance and do benchmarks on Jenkins Plugins, my work for the first phase of the project was to create a framework for running benchmarks in Jenkins plugins with a Jenkins instance available....

Abhyudaya Sharma June 21, 2019