DevOps and Continuous Delivery: What’s It All About?
It seems like everywhere you look someone is telling you to implement continuous delivery (CD) within a DevOps framework. Although there is a lot of talk about what you should do, there’s precious little about why or how. Ken Mugrage starts with the business issues that resulted in CD being formalized and how these issues can be made better with CD practices. He moves on to discuss the DevOps culture movement and clarifies the differences between CD and DevOps. Ken shares some useful ways you can start applying these concepts and practices. Throughout the presentation, Ken cites peer-reviewed research showing how both DevOps and CD increase the likelihood of exceeding goals for market share and productivity in organizations. Understand how DevOps and CD can help in your organization, and take away some solid steps you can take in your organizations when you return home.
Ken Mugrage is a technology evangelist for ThoughtWorks, focused on providing education on DevOps and continuous delivery. He began his IT career in the early 1990s as a system administrator for Seattle’s first Internet service provider. Ken went on to form his own web development company in 1994, creating some of the first data-driven websites anywhere. During the next twenty years he held almost every position in a software development organization—from developer to director of a global engineering team. Using his experience Ken has consulted with top companies on applying the right technical solutions to business problems.