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
2. Can you release your latest green build on demand at the push of a button while relaxing on the beach in Goa?
3. Why?
4. Time to market
5. Affordable risks
6. No more work of art
7. Let business decide
8. Myths
9. Upfront design
10. Legacy code running in production
11. My stack does not support
12. My Domain does not require
13. Principles
14. Component based architecture
15. Deployment pipeline
16. Infrastructure as code
17. Automate as much as possible
18. Bring the pain froward
19. Extend CI
20. Execution
21. Automated testing
22. Feature branching
23. Branch by abstraction
24. Team organization
25. Have customized release strategies
26. Blue – Green deployments
27. Canary releases
28. Dark launching
29. Mitigating DB issues
30. Data is persistent
31. Not all changes can be rolled back
32. Don’t integrate late
33. Version control db migration scripts
34. Embrace DevOps
35. Adopt a configuration management tool
36. Test infrastructures with monitoring tools
37. Virtualization and Cloud helps
38. Phoenix servers
41. Maintaining CD projects
42. Collaboration is key
44. Enable faster smaller feed back loops
45. Set up comprehensive dashboard
49. Churn out cross cutting analytics
50. Exercise MVP principle at component level
51. Questions? Suggestion? Violent disagreements?
52. Thank you