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Continuous Delivery – A GitHub Story

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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

  1. a GitHub Story CONTINUOUS D E L I V E

    R Y

  2. [email protected] github.com/training @matthewmccull matthewmccullough

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  5. Probably the most important technical book of 2010 -Martin Fowler,

    ThoughtWorks

  6. Why? The current state of affairs

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  11. we have a problem

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  13. "This is so important, we can't entrust it to automation.

    We need our top developer to supervise it."
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  15. The Loose Parts Building blocks of better results

  16. automation everywhere

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  18. continuous integration

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  22. agile practices

  23. traceability

  24. rollback

  25. toggles

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  28. humane interface

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  30. Divide and Conquer Small actions are generally best

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  35. Automate Humans are creative. Robots are consistent.

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  38. continuous integration servers

  39. continuous integration servers jenkins travis ci circleci buildhive

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  45. Embrace Transient-ness Hardware on demand provides flexibility

  46. Cloudbees

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  48. Amazon Web Services

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  50. Heroku

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  52. Hubot

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  54. hubot: <dosomething>

  55. Measure Identify mistakes at home and in the wild

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  64. Feature Flags Dip toes, not heads, into unknown waters

  65. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/3209181446/

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  68. Fail Forward Fix the root of problems

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  70. git revert

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  72. small changes

  73. try not to roll back

  74. fail forward

  75. Listen to Leaders Open sourcing all of the ideas

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  79. Risks What's the worst that could happen?

  80. kill some features

  81. discover we're wrong

  82. cause some regressions

  83. optimize for innovation

  84. Q&A

  85. [email protected] github.com/training @matthewmccull matthewmccullough