Continuous delivery and DevOps : a quickstart guide /: a quickstart guide. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Swartout.
• Other Names: Swartout, Paul
• Contents: Table of Contents; Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide; Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Evolution of a Software House; ACME systems Version 1.0; Software delivery process flow Version 1.0; ACME systems Version 2.0. Software delivery process flow Version 2.0A few brave men and women; ACME systems Version 3.0; Software delivery process flow Version 3.0; Summary; 2. No Pain, No Gain; Elephant in the room; Ground rules; Openness and honesty is the key; Include (almost) everyone; Some tried and tested techniques; Value stream mapping; Using retrospectives; The timeline game; StoStaKee; Summary; 3. Plan of Attack; Setting and communicating goals and vision; Standardizing vocabulary and language; A business change project in its own right; The benefits of a dedicated team; The importance of evangelism. The courage and determination required throughout the organizationUnderstanding the cost; Seeking advice from others; Summary; 4. Tools and Technical Approaches; Engineering best practice; Source control; Small, frequent, and simple changes; Never break your consumer; Open and honest peer working practices; Fail fast and often; Automated build and testing; Continuous integration; Architectural approaches; Component based architecture; Layers of abstraction; How many environments is enough?; Using the same binary across all environments; Develop against a like live environment; CD tooling. Automated provisioningNo-downtime deployments; Monitoring; When a simple manual process is also an effective tool; Summary; 5. Culture and Behaviors; Open, honest, and courageous dialogue; Openness and honesty; Courageous dialogue; The physical environment; Encouraging and embracing collaboration; Fostering innovation and accountability at grass roots; The blame culture; Blame slow, learn quickly; Building trust-based relationships across organizational boundaries; Rewarding good behaviors and success; The odd few; Recognizing how different teams are incentivized can have an impact. Embracing change and reducing riskChanging people's perceptions with pudding; Being highly visible about what you are doing and how you are doing it; Summary; 6. Hurdles to Look Out For; What are the potential issues you need to look out for?; Dissenters in the ranks; The change curve; The outsiders; Corporate guidelines, red tape, and standards; Geographically diverse teams; Failure during the evolution; Processes that are not repeatable; Recruitment; Summary; 7. Measuring Success and Remaining Successful; Measuring effective engineering best practice; Code versus comments; Code complexity.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Pub
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (136 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.1; Computer software -- Development; Computer software -- Reliability; Computer; Computer software -- Development; Computer software -- Reliability; COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS -- Computer Science; COMPUTERS -- Data Processing; COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General; COMPUTERS -- Information Technology; COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory; COMPUTERS -- Reference; Computer software -- Development; Computer software -- Reliability; Computer software / Development; Computer software / Reliability; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781849693691; 1849693692; 1849693684; 9781849693684
• Related ISBNs: 9781849693684
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