Continuous Delivery Tools Collaboration Conways Law - QCon London - Matthew Skelton

Presentation given at QCon London on 4th March 2015

Tools, Collaboration, and Conway's Law: how to choose and use tools effectively for Continuous Delivery and DevOps

With an ever-increasing array of tools and technologies claiming to 'enable DevOps' or 'implement Continuous Delivery', how do we know which tools to try or to choose? In-house, open source, or commercial? Ruby or shell? Dedicated or plugins? It transpires that highly collaborative practices such as DevOps and Continuous Delivery require new ways of assessing tools and technologies in order to avoid creating new silos.

Matthew Skelton shares his recent experience of helping many different organisations to evaluate and select tools to facilitate DevOps and Continuous Delivery, including version control, log aggregation, deployment pipelines, monitoring and metrics, and infrastructure automation tools; the recommendations may surprise you.

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