Devnology Podcast 23 - Continuous Delivery

In this episode we interview Dave Farley and Jez Humble about the content of their award-winning book on Continuous Delivery.

The basic premise of the book is that we need to move beyond Continoous Integration and occasional delivery and work towards practices that allow for the creation and deployment of final deliverables on all environments on every check-in. Jez and Dave explain the concepts behind the deployment pipeline and we discuss the practices and policies that come into play from the moment of check-in to updating the live version of software.

We talk about various strategies and patterns for testing, building and releasing software, and how these fit in with agile and lean software development.

Follow the authors on twitter via @jezhumble and @davefarley77

This interview was recorded on the 13th of October 2011 at the wonderful GOTO Conference in Amsterdam. Special thanks to the folks at the Goto Conference for kindly letting us use their facilities! 
Interview by @freekl en @arnetim.
Audio post-production by @mendelt

Book: Continuous Delivery - Continuous Delivery.Addison-Wesley, 2010.
The accompanying website ContinuousDelivery.com
Continuous Delivery is chosen as the textbook for the Agile Engineering Practices course for the Software Engineering MSc at Oxford University
Continuous Delivery introductory slidedeck from JAOO 2010, Aarhus
Presentation on InfoQ about Continuous Delivery by Jez at DevOpsDays, Hamburg 2010
Article “What DevOps Means for Enterprises”, http://agileweboperations.com, 18 January 2011
More resources are on the Resources section for the book