Distributed build and compile statistics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10303442-B2
Application number	US-201715489630-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2017
Priority date	Oct 31, 2014
Publication date	May 28, 2019
Grant date	May 28, 2019

Abstract

The present technology adds code to a top level build configuration file of a configuration program that will gather metrics for each invocation of a build. These metrics are sent to a commonly accessible metric server for future analysis. The metrics are collected for a distributed engineering team over several machines. Compilation time metrics may then be collected for each compilation event and those metrics are analyzed by a common aggregator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for processing data regarding a plurality of program builds or compilations from a plurality of distributed computing devices, the method including:
receiving, at an aggregator on a server in a computer network, build data and local machine data associated with one or more program builds being executed on the plurality of distributed computing devices, wherein the build data includes time stamp data representing start and end times for completing the build of each program, the build data and local machine data providing context for completing the plurality of program builds across the plurality of distributed computing devices;
creating, by the aggregator, aggregated groups of data based on dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices;
determining, by the server, a time for completing at least one build of the plurality of program builds;
receiving, from an administrator computing device, a query for a particular slice of the aggregated groups of data; and
generating, by the server, a response to the receive query to return the requested particular slice of the aggregated groups of data, the response causing the administrator computing device to display, through an interface, a tree of the dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the creating the aggregated groups of data includes:
aggregating data by the dimensions including operating system data, branch data, project data, target data, result of the build data, machine resources data, or workflow data.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying, through the interface, includes:
displaying multiple data points for the plurality of builds with a set of the dimensions.

4. The method of claim 1 , including:
receiving work flow data including one or more instructions performed at the plurality of distributed computing devices before start of the plurality of program builds.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the local machine data includes:
receiving memory and processor data of the plurality of distributed computing devices completing the plurality of program builds.

6. The method of claim 1 , including:
analyzing the received build data and local machine data for the plurality of distributed computing devices completing the plurality of program builds.

7. The method of claim 1 , including:
receiving the local machine data and the build data based on a non-periodic event including an anomaly.

8. A system for processing data regarding a plurality of program builds at a plurality of distributed computing devices, the system including:
a processor;
a memory; and
one or more modules stored in the memory and executable by the processor to perform operations including:
receive build data and local machine data associated with one or more program builds being executed on the plurality of distributed computing devices, wherein the build data includes time stamp data representing start and end times for completing the build of each program, the build data and local machine data providing context for completing the plurality of program builds across the plurality of distributed computing devices;
create aggregated groups of data based on dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices;
determine a time for completing at least one build of the plurality of program builds;
receive, from an administrator computing device, a query for a particular slice of the aggregated groups of data; and
generate a response to the receive query to return the requested particular slice of the aggregated groups of data, the response causing the administrator computing device to display, through an interface, a tree of the dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the dimensions include operating system data, branch data, project data, target data, result of the build data, machine resources data, or workflow data.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more modules are executable to display, through the interface, multiple data points for the plurality of builds with a set of the dimensions.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform operations for collecting data regarding a program build including:
receiving build data and local machine data associated with one or more program builds being executed on the plurality of distributed computing devices, wherein the build data includes time stamp data representing start and end times for completing the build of each program, the build data and local machine data providing context for completing the plurality of program builds across the plurality of distributed computing devices;
creating aggregated groups of data based on dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices;
determining a time for completing at least one build of the plurality of program builds
receiving, from an administrator computing device, a query for a particular slice of the aggregated groups of data; and
generating a response to the receive query to return the requested particular slice of the aggregated groups of data, the response causing the administrator computing device to display, through an interface, a tree of the dimensions of the received build data and local machine data associated with the plurality of program builds at the distributed computing devices.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the creating the aggregated groups of data includes:
aggregating data by the dimensions including operating system data, branch data, project data, target data, result of the build data, machine resources data, or workflow data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the displaying, through the interface, includes:
displaying multiple data points for the plurality of builds with a set of the dimensions.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , including:
receiving work flow data including one or more instructions performed at the plurality of distributed computing devices before start of the plurality of program builds.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , including:
receiving the local machine data and the build data based on a non-periodic event including an anomaly.

Assignees

• Appdynamics Llc
• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Buteau Andrew Patrick

Classifications

• G06F8/355

  Round-trip engineering · CPC title

• G06F8/71

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• H04L67/2833

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F8/22 Primary

  Procedural · CPC title

• G06F9/52

  Program synchronisation; Mutual exclusion, e.g. by means of semaphores · CPC title