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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuous deployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

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We asked him a few questions to learn about continuous delivery, why it’s useful, and what engineers and management need to do to implement it. LSC: One of the biggest fears people have about a continuous deployment environment is that it introduces more risk to engineering. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.

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Embrace technical debt

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Outside the world of hypothetical examples, its more important to make continual progress than to build the ultimate design. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about. One last thought.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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Because there are no tests for new features (or operational alerts for the production code), the code that supports those new features could go bad at any moment. Eric, Is this post about Architecture? The story of the engineering manager is one of an Architectural challenge - positive value expectations in one context (e.g.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

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And as Kapor himself points out, the core ideas have even older origins: The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We owe a lot to this seminal document.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?