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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

All cash in most secure possible instruments. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Dont sugar coat.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best. Hiring decisions are among the most difficult, and the most critical.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

Most enterprise customers do NOT want frequent releases for two main reasons (1)They have heavy internal release processes: long QA cycle, security reviews, etc; and (2) It is costly to communicate and educate their own customers about a new set of features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of this was code that not scalable, not secure, and not particularly extensible. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. If you cant deploy to 5% of the nodes and check the results, then how would you accomplish continuous deployment?