Herding Code 143 – Paul Stack on Continuous Delivery

The guys talk to Paul Stack about Continuous Deployment.

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K. Scott asks Paul for a description of what Continuous Delivery is.
Paul talks about the differences between Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.
Scott brings up the difficulties that databases bring about as it relates to deployments.
Paul talks about how a distributed cache layer has helped alleviate those deployment problems for him.
Jon asks how these processes lead software to have a better architecture.
K. Scott asks how source control plays into the process.
Paul talks about feature switching, which can be used to turn features on and off.
Paul talks about the benefits of rapid feedback.
There is a question from Twitter about databases and data warehousing and PowerShell equivalents of Chef and Puppet.
Another question from related to the processes related to deploying with TFS.
Scott talks about his experience prototyping Octopus Deploy.
Kevin brings up the topic of rollbacks.
Paul talks about A/B testing and canary testing.
K. Scott asks about pushback on Continuous Delivery.
Jon asks if it is possible to incrementally work towards Continuous Delivery.
K. Scott asks about the pitfalls of Continuous Delivery.
Jon asks if there are teams or situations that Continuous Delivery would not work.
K. Scott asks about benchmarking of deployments.
Another question from twitter related to Continuous Deployment of desktop software.
Paul gives examples of technology making Continuous Delivery easier.
Kevin asks if decisions made at the beginning of a project make it harder to implement Continuous Delivery.

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Show notes by @rossfuhrman – thanks!