The book that Dave Farley and I have been working on for nigh on four years, Continuous Delivery, is finally up as a rough cut on Safari. I’m also very proud to announce that it has recently been accepted into Martin Fowler’s Signature Series. The book covers build and deployment automation, continuous integration, test automation, managing infrastructure and environments, configuration management, version control practices, data migration automation, and even governance. That’s a lot of material, and read like this it seems like a bit of a grab-bag of activities that normally gets second billing when you’re delivering software. However these turn out to be absolutely essential activities if you want to get high quality software into the hands of users as fast as possible, and then keep delivering them valuable new features1.
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