November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
13h 15m
English
Content preview from Continuous Delivery in Java
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There’s been broad agreement in the Continuous Delivery community that tools don’t matter ever since Dave Farley and Jez Humble wrote Continuous Delivery. There are plenty of good programming languages out there, and plenty of good tools for building, testing, and deploying your code to production. The wisdom of the crowd has been: it doesn’t matter which tools you use, as long as you avoid the really terrible tools.
This year, that wisdom has been augmented by the work of Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. Their book Accelerate summarises multiple years of research into Continuous Delivery and IT performance. One of their conclusions is the ability for teams to choose their own tools has a strong, statistical impact on Continuous Delivery. So, now the wisdom of the crowd is: it doesn’t matter which tools you use, as long as you’re able to choose them yourself and you avoid the really terrible tools.
Take me, for example. The first time I did Continuous Delivery on a team was at Elsevier in 2007. We built a journal website in Java 6, Spring 2, and Tomcat 6 using XP practices like TDD and CI. The pipeline was Ant and Cruise Control. The codebase was always releasable, and once a week we deployed to production.
The first time I did Continuous Delivery across an entire company was at LMAX in 2008. We built a state of the art financial exchange in Java 6, Spring 3, and Resin 3 using XP practices and Domain Driven Design. The pipeline was Ant and Cruise Control, ...
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