Wercker is a Docker-based continuous delivery platform that helps software developers build and deploy their applications and microservices.
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11 Facts About Wercker
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Business behind Wercker, called Wercker, was founded in 2012 and acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2017.
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Each time a developer makes a change to his or her codebase in Git, Wercker retrieves the code, builds a version of it inside a container to isolate it, tests it for errors and then notifies the user if it either passed or failed.
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Wercker is integrated with Docker containers, which package up application code and can be easily moved from server to server.
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Wercker is based on the concept of pipelines, which are automated workflows.
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The Wercker API provides programmatic access to information about applications, builds and deploys.
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Wercker is currently available as cloud services, though Wercker is working on an enterprise offering that will allow on-premises use as well.
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Hernandez van Leuffen came up with Wercker's underlying technology for his thesis project on containers and automatic resource provisioning at the University of San Francisco.
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In January 2013, Wercker received a seed investment from an A-list group of investors.
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Wercker was part of the 2012 startup incubator program Rockstart Accelerator in Amsterdam.
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Wercker announced it would use the investment to drive developer adoption, expand into the enterprise market, and deepen automation capabilities with more flexible and complex development pipelines.
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