Different models of CI/CD
There's almost always more than one way to do something. What workflow does your team use for CI/CD?
Is Continuous Deployment incompatible with manual QA?
CD leaves room for manual approvals, but once approved, all changes should be applied automatically.
Platform engineering FTW
With a platform-team, there's no confusion over the question of specialization, as it's clear who does dev work and who does ops work.
Adventures In DevOps 084: Continuous Deployment Without Automated Tests
Jonathan Hall joins the Adventure this week to discuss the advice he gives to clients to start continuous deployment before they have automated tests around their code.
Reader response to "Monolithic success story"
There's no one-size-fits-all solution to all testing needs. Ephemeral review environments are great, but they don't solve all problems. Most teams will also want a long-lived staging environment, too.
There's no reason not to use a linter
Simply adding a linter to your build pipeline is usually the simplest, cheapest single step you can do to improve code quality.
A monolithic success story
We automatically created a test environment for every pull request, and it had a revolutionary impact on the development process.
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1 deploy per month to 160 per week in 9 months
As usual, the biggest obstacle to Continuous Deployment was the fear of losing control.
The psychological benefits of Continuous Deployment
An overlooked benefit of Continuous Deployment is the psychological change that developers feel when they know that "Merge" means "Go live".
How do you eat an elephant?
What's the smallest step you can take today toward improving your software delivery?
10 deploys per day? BORING!
In 2009, many thought 10+ deploys per day was inconcievable. Today it's boring. I call that progress!