Dominion Marine Media adopts cutting-edge engineering practices

NORFOLK, Va. – Dominion Marine Media (DMM), the division of Dominion Enterprises that operates YachtWorld, Boat Trader, boats.com and Cosas De Barcos, has announced its new partnership with continuous integration (CI) platform provider CloudBees. Using the DEV@cloud system will ensure DMM continues to lead the way with the latest engineering practices in the industry.

DMM’s websites serve more than 38 million unique visitors annually in six languages in 171 countries. Its team of developers faces a constant challenge to ensure consistency across projects and keep infrastructure maintenance overheads to a minimum. As a result, DMM decided to move away from hosting and maintaining its own CI infrastructure to using the CloudBees-hosted solution instead.

The DEV@cloud system lets DMM move Scala, Java and PHP development to the cloud and provides support for deploying components on DMM’s in-house infrastructure. It also allows DMM to continue hosting its own quality assurance (QA) and production environments.

As a result of implementing the new system, project startup times have been significantly shortened, with DMM’s developers now able to get new projects off the ground far more quickly and simply. “The rate of change in every industry is constantly increasing, so we have to be more nimble to give our customers and consumers the best tools and services to buy and sell boats. The reduced overhead, reduced time to market and increased confidence we gain by using CloudBees allow us to do exactly that,” according to Marius de Beer, vice president of technology for DMM.

DMM Engineering Manager Mike Marich commented: “We develop numerous small services that provide a well-defined function or feature for the overall system. As a result, we need to spin up new projects quickly and often. DEV@cloud enables our developers to rapidly set up new projects and concentrate on development, not infrastructure. With CloudBees, we can continuously run tests to see the moment something breaks, then release it to production with a single button click. This means we spend much less time dealing with build issues and more time doing the actual development which is the core of our business.”

Mike Lambert, CloudBees vice president of sales-Americas, added, “We’re delighted to be working with Dominion Marine Media and giving their development team the tools to operate even more effectively. With CloudBees helping streamline project startups and minimize infrastructure maintenance, DMM can focus on what they’re good at.”