Continuous Deployment: Deliver Fast & Frequently

This slide deck describes how ChangeYourFlight, a tech startup focused on the Airline industry, moved from 1-2 releases to 30+ releases a month - through automated testing, continuous integration, transparency, communication and collaboration.

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1. 1 Continuous Deployment Fred Chief Evangelist (@fredfigueiredo) June 26, 2013 #Webcat
2. 2 Continuous Deployment Deliver Fast & Frequently (original title)
3. 3 Continuous Deployment Deliver Fast & Furious (improved title?)
4. 4 Continuous Deployment Deliver Fast & Furious
5. 5 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Fast & Furious series
6. 6 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Fast & Furious series (Stats) Data retrieved from Wikipedia and IMDB
7. 7 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Production VS. Release 1 Movie Sequel / 2 Years Average Production: 1 Year - 2 Years Average extrapolated from several sources
8. 8 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Curiosity?
9. 9 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Continuous deployment? Small, frequent changes to production (as defined by Etsy.com)
10. 10 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 About… Partial refunds on plane tickets J Passengers get partial refunds J Airlines get available seats J ChangeYourFlight gets, well…
11. 11 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 In numbers 3 years “in the making” 1.5 years since launch 2 clients / airlines (more soon) 6 team members (currently) 4+ engineers
12. 12 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Today
13. 13 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 October 2011
14. 14 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Technology stack (initial)
15. 15 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 When I joined? NO Version Control (feature tracking, what is that?) NO Documentation (if any, in Spanish) NO Testing (it was never tested) NO System Integration (it simply did not worked) NOT Live (THANK GOD!) What we had? A 740MB DVD! WTF?
16. 16 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 22nd December 2011
17. 17 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Minimum Valuable Product (MVP) CYF Team Requests Emails, “Algorithm” “DB” Add Get
18. 18 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 How we released?
19. 19 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 How we released?
20. 20 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 How we released? Average: 1 to 2 releases / month
21. 21 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 First release?
22. 22 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Feelings?
23. 23 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Integration hell!
24. 24 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 AKA: Big bang releases
25. 25 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 31st August 2012
26. 26 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Inspiration…
27. 27 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Less than 3 months after…
28. 28 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Confidence as a Service (as said by Etsy CEO at SXSW12)
29. 29 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 +30 Monthly releases Everyone deploys, even our co-founders!
30. 30 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Continuous integration (via Jenkins) •  Over 60 automated integration tests •  Over 200 unit tests •  Smoke & nightly tests
31. 31 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Nightly build – Green
32. 32 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Nightly build – Red (FIX IT!)
33. 33 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Tools
34. 34 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 What we gained?
35. 35 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Continuous deployment?
36. 36 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Continuous deployment? It’s a cultural mind-set!
37. 37 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Transparency
38. 38 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Communication
39. 39 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Collaboration
40. 40 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Automation Commercial status Kanban
41. 41 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Does it scale? https://www.udemy.com/lean-startup-sxsw-2012-videos-and-presentations/#lecture/73944
42. 42 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Recommendation?
43. 43 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Do what? Do whatever works for you. No more. No less. But do it!
44. 44 Continuous Deployment / @fredfigueiredo / #WebCat / June 2013 Thank You! @fredfigueiredo Chief Evangelist at…