October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 33m
English
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Preface
When we started our career as software developers in 2008, we didn’t care about operations. We wrote code, and someone else was responsible for deployment and operations. There was a huge gap between software development and IT operations. On top of that, releasing new features was a huge risk because it was impossible to test all the changes to software and infrastructure manually. Every six months, when new features needed to be deployed, we experienced a nightmare.
Time passed, and in 2012 we became responsible for a product: an online banking platform. Our goal was to iterate quickly and to be able to release new features to the product every week. Our software was responsible for managing money, so the quality and security of the ...