Cloud
Ship without holding your breath
When a new version is nerve-racking it gets shipped less often. And then every single one is bigger and riskier.
Area
Cloud
Typical for
Teams shipping by hand
Goal
Shipping as routine
What it is about
Software shipped by hand depends on one person and their memory. Automated delivery makes the same path identical every time and documents it along the way.
The real gain is not speed but that small changes become possible again.
What gets set up
- Automatic build and test on every change
- A staging environment that matches production
- Delivery at the push of a button instead of by instructions
- A tested way back to the previous version
Also for existing projects
The entry point is usually an automatic build, then the tests, then delivery. Each step is worth something on its own.
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