Based on years of work with medium to large organizations at Thoughtworks, author Valentina Servile explains how to perform safe and reliable deployments with no manual gate to production. You'll learn a framework to perform incremental, safe releases during everyday development work, structured exclusively around the challenges of continuous deployment in nontrivial, distributed systems. Complete with interviews and case studies from fellow industry professionals.
Close the feedback loop and leverage the production environment to manage your end-to-end development lifecycle efficiently. This book helps you
Take observability, performance, test automation, and security into account when splitting work into increments
Create a daily development plan that takes immediate deployments to production into account
Deploy work in progress to production incrementally without causing regressions
Use patterns to refactor live functionality and alter persistence layers
Test and release features in production using different feature toggle configurations