Episode 221: Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery

Jez Humble

Johannes Thönes interviews Jez Humble, senior vice president at Chef, about continuous delivery (CD). They discuss continuous delivery and how it was done at Go, CD, and HP firmware; the benefits of continuous delivery for developers; Conway’s law and cross-functional teams; scary releases and nonscary releases; fix-forward, blue-green deployments, and A/B testing; origins of continuous delivery in lean; cycle time from check-in to live; the deployment pipeline; separate release and deployment; link to DevOps; continuous delivery in regulated environments; “everybody is responsible for the delivery process”; changing the culture to DevOps; stopping the production line; everything in version control; trunk-based development; configuration management; and container visualization. They end the interview by talking about how to quantify culture from the 2014 DevOps report.

Venue: XConf Hamburg 2014, Lindner Hotel, Hamburg

Related Links

• Book: Jez Humble and David Farley, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation: http://amzn.com/0321601912
• Book: Jez Humble at al., Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale: http://amzn.com/1449368425
• IMVU’s approach to integrating quality assurance with continuous deployment: http://engineering.imvu.com/2010/04/09/imvus-approach-to-integrating-quality-assurance-with-continuous-deployment/
• Book: Gary Groover et al., A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware: http://amzn.com/0321821726
• Stevey Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant: http://steverant.pen.io/
• Martin Fowler: Strangler Application: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
• Book: Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit: http://amzn.com/0321150783
• Book: John Allspaw and Jesse Robbin, Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time: http://amzn.com/1449377440
• 2014 State of DevOps Report: http://puppetlabs.com/2014-devops-report
• This American Life – Episode 403: NUMMI: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/NUMMI
• Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project: https://www.se-radio.net/2014/07/episode-207-mitchell-hashimoto-on-the-vagrant-project/
• Episode 211: Continuous Delivery on Windows with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln: https://www.se-radio.net/2014/09/episode-211-continuous-delivery-on-windows-with-rachel-laycock-and-max-lincoln/
• Episode 217: James Turnbull on Docker: https://www.se-radio.net/2015/01/episode-217-james-turnbull-on-docker/
• @jezhumble on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jezhumble
• Jez Humble homepage: http://continuousdelivery.com/ (see upcoming talks section for appearances)

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