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Matthew McCullough
February 19, 2013
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Continuous Delivery – A GitHub Story
A presentation delivered by Matthew McCullough at DevNexus 2013 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Transcript
a GitHub Story CONTINUOUS D E L I V E
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[email protected]
github.com/training @matthewmccull matthewmccullough
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Probably the most important technical book of 2010 -Martin Fowler,
ThoughtWorks
Why? The current state of affairs
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we have a problem
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"This is so important, we can't entrust it to automation.
We need our top developer to supervise it."
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The Loose Parts Building blocks of better results
automation everywhere
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continuous integration
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agile practices
traceability
rollback
toggles
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humane interface
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Divide and Conquer Small actions are generally best
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Automate Humans are creative. Robots are consistent.
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continuous integration servers
continuous integration servers jenkins travis ci circleci buildhive
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Embrace Transient-ness Hardware on demand provides flexibility
Cloudbees
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Amazon Web Services
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Heroku
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Hubot
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hubot: <dosomething>
Measure Identify mistakes at home and in the wild
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Feature Flags Dip toes, not heads, into unknown waters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/3209181446/
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Fail Forward Fix the root of problems
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git revert
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small changes
try not to roll back
fail forward
Listen to Leaders Open sourcing all of the ideas
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Risks What's the worst that could happen?
kill some features
discover we're wrong
cause some regressions
optimize for innovation
Q&A
[email protected]
github.com/training @matthewmccull matthewmccullough