Culture of Quality: Move Fast and Break Things

Hi Folks - after a bit of a hiatus we are back. Steve Neely of Rally Software will be talking in more detail about Rally's progress toward Continuous Delivery. This talk is intended to be more focused on the developer perspective and the tools Rally uses.

Talk Overview

Continuous delivery is a hot topic. But you cannot leap from 8 week release cycles to continuous delivery overnight. This is a complex and potentially expensive process requiring support throughout your organization. It'll probably scare the $#!% out of many of your colleagues.

Back in June, Aaron presented the Rally story of moving from 8 week releases to continuous deployment (https://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Resilience-Engineering-the-Web/events/65340112/). In this talk I'll explore the what/why/how of our progress from a developer viewpoint. I'll focus in on technology choices, experiments we've tried -- successes and failures -- with the hope that you can learn from our experiences.

At the end of this talk you'll have a clear case study that demonstrates pushing code directly to production is safer than batching.

About Steve

Steve Neely is a research & development engineer at Rally Software. His interests include: engineering quality, agile techniques, continuous delivery, distributed systems, internet technologies, mobile and pervasive computing, middleware, informatics and data management, and semistructured data.

The little details

Doors will open at 6pm & the talk starts around 6:30pm. Talks should wrap up by 7:30pm or so with plenty of time for networking before and after the talk. There will be refreshments and pizza at the meetup. Please be sure to RSVP so we have an accurate count for the food.