July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
12h 37m
English
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Chapter 4. You Must Be This Tall
The phrase “You must be this tall to ride” commonly appears on signs at amusement parks and carnivals to let people know the minimum height requirement for certain rides. The signs are not meant for gatekeeping, but for safety. Martin Fowler used this metaphor in his article about prerequisites for microservices architecture. In the same fashion, you can think of this chapter as the “you must be this tall” sign that can help you figure out whether it’s safe for your team to get on the very fast ride of continuous deployment. In particular, I will describe a list of safety-focused practices that teams should implement before switching to a fully automated pipeline.
Sending each commit to production without manual intervention has the potential to break things, of course. Critical defects slipping past inadequate quality gates can cost businesses some serious money and scare stakeholders right back into overcomplicating the release process (and into putting heavy gatekeeping on production). That’s why it is our responsibility as software professionals to carefully evaluate whether our teams are ready, and if they aren’t, to place continuous deployment within the context of a bigger journey of continuous delivery maturity. The goal of this journey should be to build up a technical and organizational foundation that allows people of all levels of experience to participate in a fast-paced deployment life cycle.
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