March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 17m
English
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CHAPTER 5
ARCHITECTURE
We’ve seen that adopting continuous delivery practices improves delivery performance, impacts culture, and reduces burnout and deployment pain. However, the architecture of your software and the services it depends on can be a significant barrier to increasing both the tempo and stability of the release process and the systems delivered.
Furthermore, DevOps and continuous delivery originated in web-based systems, so it’s legitimate to ask if they can be applied to mainframe systems, firmware, or to an average big-ball-of-mud enterprise environment (Foote and Yoder 1997) consisting of thousands of tightly coupled systems.
We set out to discover the impact of architectural decisions and constraints on delivery performance, ...