Sep 20: Continuous Delivery Overview by Rob Spieldenner

Title: Continuous Delivery Overview by Rob Spieldenner

Description: Continuous Delivery is a series of techniques and practices focused around keeping your code base in a releasable state and able to be deployed to production at the push of a button. To do this the talk will describe how to setup a build pipeline, create a maintainable suite of automated acceptance tests, use practices from infrastructure-as-code, and some possible deployment techniques.

Speaker: Rob Spieldenner is a Systems Architect at Next Century Corporation, a technology company focused on the development of a new class of solutions that include situational awareness, at-a-glance analysis, decision support, collaboration, and others to provide information to decision makers in homeland security, the military, and the intelligence agencies. He likes to think of himself as a software craftsman who strives to improve his understanding of software development. He has worked professionally for almost 10 years designing and developing Java and Groovy applications. He has promoted and setup a level of Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery on every project he has been a member of over the last 5 years.

Food: Food and soft drinks will be provided by Near Infinity Corp.

Sponsors: Many thanks to the following supporters of the DC/Nova JUG.

SAIC (http://www.saic.com)
Near Infinity (http://www.nearinfinity.com)
Redhat (http://www.redhat.com)
Solution Street (http://www.solutionstreet.com)
Appian (http://www.appian.com)
Excella (http://www.excella.com)
STSI (http://stsiinc.com)