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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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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

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As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups.

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Fear is the mind-killer

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I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

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but rest assured they would be. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. And funding delays are a big distraction for founders, who ought to be working on their company, not worrying about investors.