Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Drives cultural change

It was a big event when we completed our first fully automated deployment of our monolith using disposable infrastructure. There was a celebration. It was a big deal. Then we did another deployment in a couple of days and the naysayers nodded their heads. Then we did another deployment the next day and congratulatory emails went out. Before long we could do a deployment, even multiple deployments, on any given day, without even a whisper or a pat on the back. Deployments had become non-events. Successful, uneventful deployments had become an expectation. The culture had begun to change.

We still have celebrations. We have them when we complete a feature release. But a release is now just a marketing event; it is not ...