How can we deliver faster and with higher quality?
Everything related to shipping, DevOps, Infrastructure, etc informing my thinking on how to build better software delivery at Operations1
How can we deliver faster and with higher quality?
Originally recommended to me by Hans
In continuous delivery, we invest in building a culture supported by tools and people where we can detect any issues quickly, so that they can be fixed straight away when they are cheap to detect and resolve.
Nicole Forsgren PhD • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
“Continuous delivery” means that you work so your software is always releasable.
“Continuous deployment” means that if your deployment pipeline passes, the change is automatically pushed to production.
Continuous deployment is a subset of continuous delivery.
“Continuous deployment” means that if your deployment pipeline passes, the change is automatically pushed to production.
Continuous deployment is a subset of continuous delivery.
Frequent Questions
A stream-aligned team aims to produce a steady flow of feature delivery. A stream-aligned team is quick to course correct based on feedback from the latest changes. A stream-aligned team uses an experimental approach to product evolution, expecting to constantly learn and adapt. A stream-aligned team has minimal (ideally zero) hand-offs of work to
... See moreMatthew Skelton, Manuel Pais • Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
A “deployment” is the technical act of copying software to a host environment and getting it ready for use.
A “release” makes a new feature available to users.
A “release” makes a new feature available to users.
Frequent Questions
when deployment and production release themselves are automated, they are rapid, repeatable, and reliable. It is often so much easier to perform a release once the process is automated that they become "normal" events—meaning that, should you choose, you can perform releases more frequently. This is particularly the case where you are able to step
... See moreJez Humble • What Is a Deployment Pipeline?
deployment pipeline is an automated manifestation of your process for getting software from version control into the hands of your users.
Jez Humble • What Is a Deployment Pipeline?
Our research shows that Lean management, along with a set of other technical practices known collectively as continuous delivery (Humble and Farley 2010), do in fact impact culture, as shown in Figure 3.3. Figure 3.3: Westrum Organizational Culture’s Drivers You can act your way to a better culture by implementing these practices in technology
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