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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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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: 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?

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. At first, I thought I was doing well.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It meant that the PHP brand stood for the same set of tools always and everywhere.

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