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Andy Delcambre
October 01, 2011
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Release early and Release often
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Transcript
RELEASE EARLY & Reducing Deployment Friction RELEASE OFTEN Saturday, October
1, 11
ANDY DELCAMBRE It rhymes with “Welcome” Saturday, October 1, 11
@adelcambre Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
REDUCING DEPLOYMENT FRICTION Saturday, October 1, 11
REDUCING DEPLOYMENT FRICTION Saturday, October 1, 11
REDUCING DEVELOPMENT FRICTION Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
STARTING A NEW TASK Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
git checkout -b U-666 Saturday, October 1, 11
git commit -m “[U-666] add unicorns” Saturday, October 1, 11
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............................. ..*......**.................. ............................. ...................... Finished in 10.809554 seconds 109 examples,
0 failures, 3 pending Saturday, October 1, 11
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EyBot Saturday, October 1, 11
require 'ey/irc' run EY::Irc::Receiver.new { |message| case message.body when /^ping$/
message.say(message.to, ”Hello World!”) end end Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
MASON Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
git checkout master git merge U-666 git push origin master
Saturday, October 1, 11
MARK TICKET AS “MERGED” Saturday, October 1, 11
AUTO DEPLOY TO EDGE Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
404 DEPLOYS IN SEPTEMBER Saturday, October 1, 11
~ 20 per week day Saturday, October 1, 11
2-9 Production Deploys per Day Saturday, October 1, 11
EyBot: release awsm production Saturday, October 1, 11
Ensure master is green Saturday, October 1, 11
Tag the release Saturday, October 1, 11
Assign all merged tickets to the version Saturday, October 1,
11
Push tag to the deploy branch Saturday, October 1, 11
Production automatically deploys from the deploy branch Saturday, October 1,
11
Mark all tickets in this release as resolved Saturday, October
1, 11
Send Notifications Saturday, October 1, 11
Hoptoad Airbrake Saturday, October 1, 11
New Relic Saturday, October 1, 11
Email Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
Saturday, October 1, 11
The actual deploy Saturday, October 1, 11
Fairly Standard Deploy Saturday, October 1, 11
current/ releases/ shared/ Saturday, October 1, 11
Unicorn Saturday, October 1, 11
bundle install --deployment Saturday, October 1, 11
Zero Downtime Migrations Saturday, October 1, 11
No Magic, Just a technique Saturday, October 1, 11
Adding a column Saturday, October 1, 11
Add a migration to add the column Saturday, October 1,
11
Ship code that needs the new column Saturday, October 1,
11
Deploy the code Restart the servers Then run migrations Saturday,
October 1, 11
More examples Saturday, October 1, 11
Removing a Column Saturday, October 1, 11
Renaming a column Saturday, October 1, 11
A work in progress Saturday, October 1, 11
Thanks! Saturday, October 1, 11
Questions? twitter.com/adelcambre engineyard.com We’re hiring! Saturday, October 1, 11