Jez Humble - CI/CD
Lead takeways
Optimise for lead time
Build quality in
The right thing to do
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The easiest thing to do
Strangler Application
Are we a high performing team?
Things we could do better today
- How long to onboard someone?
- Speed up build times
- Drop gitflow
- Expand our test suites
- Fix our inability to stand up databases from scratch
Things we could do better tomorrow
Configuration Management
- Could you stand up prod locally, quickly?
- Could you stand up prod locally, at all?
Database Archiving
- Tons of old data
- Who is looking at it?
- What do we do about it?
"Immune" System
- How do we know that a deployment was unsuccessful?
- Technically and from a business perspective
- How do we know our changes have "value
Canary Environment
- Internally route to a "beta" environment
- Dog food our own changes in advance
Game Day
- Try our DR strategy
- How do we know it works if we never try it?
- How long till we recover?
- Refine our approach based on results