January, 2014

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Jan 14

Continuous Deployment… or Annoy-ment?

For episode 35, the crew takes a look at a core component of continuous delivery: the application update mechanism. We talk a bit about our collective experiences supporting update paths, how some of the players in our industry conduct their updates, and whether or not that’s actually good for customers, or it’s just a myth we hear parroted constantly. We also take a look at a couple of case studies related to continuous delivery transformations, and some myths around the implementation details of continuous delivery, ultimately trying to figure out, whether it’s customers, engineering teams, release teams, or ops teams, are the way we do updates today:

Continuous Deployment… or Annoy-ment?

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a (bunch of!) tool tips!

Or, download Episode 35, or any of our previous shows!

Show Links/Notes

Tool Tip

Youssuf introduces us to jq (not “jk!”)


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What’s your opinion, as a customer, on constant updates? Silent updates?

What application architecture and testing issues have you run into while trying to adopt continuous delivery?

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Jan 14

Infrastructure As A Service… You’re Responsible For

To ring in 2014, the panel discusses some of the core elements of release engineering infrastructure for all sorts of applications, from web services to shipped-software. We talk about the challenges of coming into a new environment and having to support an existing infrastructure, a few methods for changing taking the infra over and starting to really own, and the components every build and tool infrastructure needs to address to be considered “operationalized.” We revisit some topics we’ve discussed in previous shows, but it’s always a good checklist to run through to see if you’ve got them covered in:

Infrastructure As A Service… You’re Responsible For

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a (bunch of!) tool tips!

Or, download Episode 34, or any of our previous shows!

Show Links/Notes

Tool Tip

A sort of “tool tip of tool tips,” Scott Hanselman offers suggestions for developers and power users in the 2013 update to his ultimate tool list for Windows.


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What other items/services do you find are critical in your infrastructure?

What experiences have you had coming into a new environment and having to support a legacy build infrastructure?

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Music for this episode courtesy of Joe Toscano.