Are you delivering?

Your software could be the best in the world, but if you cannot get it in the hands of your users, failure beckons. Learn about how to deliver software efficiently with an analogy involving tea.

Recommended Resources

Continuous Integration

• AWS Codepipeline https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/
• Buddy https://buddy.works/
• GitHub Actions https://docs.github.com/en/actions
• GitLab CI https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/
• Harness https://www.harness.io/
• Semaphore CI https://semaphoreci.com/
• Spinnaker https://spinnaker.io/

CI quality tools

• SonarQube https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/
• Snyk https://snyk.io/

Don't just take my word for it! Serious tech companies sharing how continuous delivery works for them.

• Monzo https://monzo.com/blog/2022/05/16/how-we-deploy-to-production-over-100-times-a-day
• Netflix https://netflixtechblog.com/global-continuous-delivery-with-spinnaker-2a6896c23ba7
• Meta "We decided to move facebook.com to a quasi-continuous 'push from master' system in April 2016" https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/31/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/
• Squeaky https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/why-we-dont-use-a-staging-environment/

Recommended Books

• Continuous Delivery by Humble, Farley | See also https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html
• Software Engineering at Google curated by Winters, Manshreck, Wright | Specifically Chapter 24: Continuous Delivery by Narayan, Jones, Shipe, Owens

Links to items mentioned in the episode

• DORA Metrics https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance
• Test Pyramid https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html
• Marginal Gains https://www.meaningfulhq.com/marginal-gains.html

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