---
title: "Stew Robinson on Continuous Integration Deployment for Economist.com"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/stew-robinson-on-continuous-integration-deployment-for-economistcom"
type: episode
date: 2009-09-29
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Stew Robinson on Continuous Integration Deployment for Economist.com

#  Stew Robinson on Continuous Integration Deployment for Economist.com 

  

*Podcast episode player*

Stew Robinson is a developer at The [Economist.com](https://www.economist.com/) and talks about the continuous integration deployment that is being used to slowly migrate The Economist from a custom Cold Fusion CMS to Drupal. It's certainly one of the most sophisticated project management and deployment set-ups that I've seen in the Drupal community.

With [Rob Purdie](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-28-rob-purdie-agile-development-social-change) as their "Scrum Master," Stew talks about the different ways of running scrum with their distributed team and their centralized team.

The Economist is also unique in that they're collaborating with a lot of different Drupal shops and independent contractors as well as their own internal Cold Fusion who were trained by Lullabot.

They're also working with Chapter 3 on building their continuous integration system using the [Vulcan](https://pantheon.io/vulcan) Amazon EC2 machine instance for Continuous Integration using [Hudson Continuous Testing/Integration system,](https://hudson.dev.java.net/) which Zach Rosen talks more about [here.](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-51-zack-rosen-drupal-cloud-hosting-amazon-ec2)

They're also using [JMeter](https://jmeter.apache.org/) to test functional behavior and measure performance.

[Download Audio](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/611/DrupalVoices052.mp3)