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A great book on pain management!, Nov 23 2010
This review is from: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Hardcover)
Agile practice states that if something hurts the remedy is to repeat until the pain goes away.
Humble's and Farley's work is about alleviating the discomfort associated with moving code from check-in to production and managing the following 3 degrees of freedom - branching, dependencies and the deployment pipeline. In showing us this new paradigm, which must be heavily supported by tools and automation, we are taught how to tackle the middleware components as well: binaries, configurations and data.
The book brought me back to Donald Knuth's vision and warnings made more than 40 years ago on anti-patterns vis-a-vis performance tuning. The authors remind us that there's nothing like Prod metrics to fine tune performance of the Prod environments.
If business governance and the imperative of delivering software are of paramount importance to you, this book is loaded with practical solutions, market knowledge and tips. It also contains a great maturity model and will introduce concepts like canary releasing and blue-green deployments.
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