Success stories
My favorite story on Continuous Delivery was told by Rolf Russell at one of his talks. It goes as follows. In 2005, Yahoo acquired Flickr and it was a clash of two cultures in the developer's world. Flickr, by that time, was a company with the start-up approach in mind. Yahoo, on the contrary, was a huge corporation with strict rules and the safety-first attitude. Their release processes differed a lot. While Yahoo used the traditional delivery process, Flickr released many times a day. Every change implemented by developers went on the production the same day. They even had a footer at the bottom of their page showing the time of the last release and the avatars of the developers who did the changes.
Yahoo deployed rarely ...
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