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We’d like to congratulate Jakub Narloch, a key Arquillian contributor and community member, on receiving a Netflix Open Source Software (OSS) cloud prize. Jakub won the award for Best Contribution to Code Quality for his work integrating Arquillian into the Karyon and Genie projects.

Adrian Cockcroft, the Chief Cloud Architect at Netflix, announced the NetflixOSS cloud prize winners during a keynote session at the AWS re:Invent conference.

When you are working on these projects, you have to worry about doing QA. We wanted to have an enterprise entry for quality contributions.

Rather than just worrying about fixing bugs in one project, what Jakub [Narloch] did was integrate the JBoss Arquillian test framework that we develop everything from.

Now, all the projects we build going forward are going to have Arquillian built in.

— Adrian Cockcroft
Netflix keynote at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft announcing the NetflixOSS award recipients at AWS re:Invent

Jakub and the other winners were present at AWS re:Invent to receive their award, a custom-made Cloud Monkey trophy, $10,000 in prize money from Netflix, $5,000 in AWS credits from Amazon and the cost of the trip to Las Vegas and admission to the conference.

Jackub Narloch (third from left, arm raised) receiving his trophy at AWS re:Invent

Jakub started out by helping to configure Arquillian to do tests for the Denominator DNS integration with UltraDNS. This work extended to include Karyon, the base server that underpins NetflixOSS services and the starting point for developing new services. Netflix was able to leverage the same integration to test Genie, which is based on Karyon.

As Adrian mentioned in the keynote, all of the projects his team at Netflix builds will be tested with Arquillian on day one.

We appreciate all that Jakub has done for the Arquillian project and code quality. Jakub entered into the Arquillian community as a Google Summer of Code student in 2012. He successfully, and rapidly, completed his project to create a Spring Framework integration for Arquillian. He now leads the Spring integration module, as well as the Guice integration and REST extension modules. We are privileged to have Jakub as member of the Arquillian community. Seriously.

We’d also like to thank Adrian Cockford, the NetflixOSS group and the contest mentors for running the cloud prize contest and giving the Arquillian project and community an opportunity to prove its value. We recognize Netflix as a valuable citizen and supporter of Arquillian and the broader open source community. We certainly hope Arquillian helps to ensure the quality of your software and drives development forward for many years to come.

Finally, we’d like to thank Adrian Cole, formerly at Netflix, for planting the Arquillian seed in the NetflixOSS group and for reaching out to the Arquillian community members to participate in the cloud prize contest. Jakub rose to that challenge. One of the primary projects Adrian worked on while at Netflix, Denominator—a multi-vender interface for DNS—was also represented in this cloud prize contest. Adrian is a true hero of OSS, cloud platforms and Arquillian.

Thanks to Jakub, Adrian and Netflix, Ike invaded the big stage at AWS re:Invent!

For more details about Jakub’s contribution to the Netflix projects, refer to his cloud prize submission, the announcement on the NetflixOSS blog and his contributions. To learn more about Arquillian, head over to arquillian.org.

Jakub Narloch (fourth from right) with the other winners of the NetflixOSS cloud prize

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According to ohloh, Arquillian has a very large, active development team. Here’s a summary of the contributor stats that ohloh curated.

Over the past twelve months, 43 developers contributed new code to Arquillian.

This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.

For this measurement, Ohloh considered only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 49 developers have contributed.

Thank you all for making this project so successful and fun! Arquillian has a bright future. Above all other awards and recognitions, it’s the number and diversity of contributors that’s the most significant. The smartest one amongst us is all of us, working together.

Cheers!

Even with the first beta still on the horizon, Arquillian has already begun to transform the enterprise testing landscape, making the formerly untestable testable.

The early influence of the Arquillian project is the result of a legion of community members integrating their diverse skills to flatten the barrier to integration testing. The collaboration across projects and across communities is truly inspiring. It’s safe to say that not only is the Arquillian invasion on, it’s well ahead of its release schedule. And that’s awesome. And the growing community is the reason why.

Noble Ike, the Arquillian prince, and the core project team, would like to recognize the community members that have helped shape Arquillian during each release cycle, either through code contributions, participation or advocacy. For donating their time, effort and patience to make Arquillian a better testing framework for the benefit of the community, we award each of them the title Arquillian Noble.

The Arquillian Nobles page on the project site lists the recipients along with the contributions they made. Contributors are awarded for either a specific release, or for general support of the project. The names of the community members crowned so far are listed here (for reference):

Pete Muir
Cheyenne Weaver
Karel Piwko
David Allen
Andy Gibson
Jason Porter
Jesper Pedersen
Jean Deruelle
Thomas Diesler
Stale Pedersen
Nicklas Karlsson
Ken Gullaksen
Alejandro Montenegro
Adrian Cole
Paul Bakker
German Escobar
Michael Schuetz
Adam Warski
Markus Eisele
Cosmin Martinconi
John Ament
Stuart Douglas
Jordan Ganoff
Lincoln Baxter III
Mike Brock

Community members may be crowned multiple times. Once a contributor becomes a team member, subsequent contributions are not listed here (team members are noble by default).

In addition to being listed on the Arquillian Nobles page, we are working to get a crown added to each recipient’s JBoss Community profile so that it is globally visible. We’ll announce when that’s available.

The more container adapters and extensions we create, the more power we put in the hands of the developer, and the better enterprise software will become. Feature transparency FTW!

Thanks to all the Arquillian Nobles, present and future, for making Arquillian awesome and for simplifying testing to child’s play!

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Jakub Narloch brings Arquillian to Netflix, recognized at AWS re:Invent

Very large, active development team

Arquillian Nobles, we crown you!