Category: Continuous Delivery
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Huge scale deployments
Deploying to 10 or 20 servers can be complicated. But what are some of the tools, tips and patterns for successfully deploying to 1,000s of servers around the world? Last month I participated in an online panel on the subject of Huge Scale Deployments, as part of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), a series of community panels about…
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Branching and Continuous Delivery video discussion
Following on from my previous post and discussions online, we arranged a Google Hangout to discuss things in more detail. I was joined by Dave Farley, Lars Kruse, Olve Maudal and Mike Long and you can watch the unedited video here: I don’t think we reached any agreement and after the video ended Olve suggested…
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Continuous delivery conversations
Last week I was at the CoDeOSL conference in Oslo. It was an interesting day, with some very good sessions, but as usual it was conversations had in the breaks that were of the most interest. I’d like to describe two discussions that I had that seem, on the face of it, to be in conflict.…
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Rolling Rocks Downhill
It’s almost a year since I posted a glowing review of “The Phoenix Project” – a business novel, following in the footsteps of Goldratt’s “The Goal”, about continuous delivery. If you haven’t yet read it, then I’m going to recommend that you hold fire, and read “Rolling Rocks Downhill” by Clarke Ching instead. I should…
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5 rules of continuous delivery
Inspired by Sandi Metz’s BaRuCo 2013 presentation “Rules” (which you should watch if you haven’t yet) I started thinking about whether there were some rules that might be useful in the continuous delivery domain to “screen for cooperative types”. I came up with these as a starting point: Check in everything – we’re used to…