Enabling continuous delivery for your webapp

An experience report from various client gigs while enabling CD

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1. Enabling Continuous
   Delivery for your WebApp
   Ranjib Dey, ThoughtWorks
   @RanjibDey
   http://ranjib.posterous.com
   

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2. Can you release your latest green
   build on demand at the push of a
   button while relaxing on the beach in
   Goa?
   

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3. Why?
   

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4. Time to market
   

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5. Affordable risks
   

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6. No more work of art
   

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7. Let business decide
   

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8. Myths
   

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9. Upfront design
   

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10. Legacy code running in production
    

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11. My stack does not support
    

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12. My Domain does not require
    

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13. Principles
    

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14. Component based architecture
    

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15. Deployment pipeline
    

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16. Infrastructure as code
    

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17. Automate as much as possible
    

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18. Bring the pain froward
    

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19. Extend CI
    

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20. Execution
    

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21. Automated testing
    

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22. Feature branching
    

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23. Branch by abstraction
    

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24. Team organization
    

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25. Have customized release strategies
    

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26. Blue – Green deployments
    

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27. Canary releases
    

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28. Dark launching
    

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29. Mitigating DB issues
    

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30. Data is persistent
    

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31. Not all changes can be rolled back
    

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32. Don’t integrate late
    

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33. Version control db migration scripts
    

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34. Embrace DevOps
    

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35. Adopt a configuration management tool
    

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36. Test infrastructures with monitoring
    tools
    

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37. Virtualization and Cloud helps
    

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38. Phoenix servers
    

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41. Maintaining CD projects
    

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42. Collaboration is key
    

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44. Enable faster smaller feed back loops
    

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45. Set up comprehensive dashboard
    

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49. Churn out cross cutting analytics
    

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50. Exercise MVP principle at component level
    

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51. Questions?
    Suggestion?
    Violent disagreements?
    

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52. Thank you
    

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