I’m on a roll with book reviews this month! Another one of my new favorites, which has helped me so much already, is Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson. This book provides an easy-to-follow introduction for people new to CD. And, it’s a handy reference guide for more experienced practitioners. Newbies will learn the language […]
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I’m really bad and lazy about posting book reviews. This book was published in 2019. I discovered it last year and have found it super helpful. It is in no way out of date. So I’m going to go ahead and share my thoughts on it! I’ve been part of teams who succeeded with continuous […]
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I had the honor to participate in two podcasts recently. One is the “QA Therapy” podcast with my friends Sergio Freire and Cristiano Cunha. We chatted about ways to fit testing into DevOps. Check out their other episodes too, they’re talking with lots of awesome folks! The other is the RedHat Compiler podcast. They talked […]
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I used to curate a site where I gathered articles, books, webinars, courses and more related to testing and quality in continuous delivery and DevOps, especially observability. That site was owned by my then-employer, and nobody is keeping it updated anymore. It might go away, so, as a public service, I am posting the resources […]
Read More Pick up any article or watch any talk on a testing-related topic these days, and you’re bound to see the terms “shift left” and “shift right”. They’re almost a cliché. What do they really mean? Modern software development isn’t supposed to be linear anymore, right? There’s not one point where it starts and another point […]
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Continuous delivery and deployment (both abbreviated as “CD”) aren’t new concepts. Jez Humble and David Farley published their Continuous Delivery book ten years ago. Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference in 2009, and created the #DevOps (also written as devops, devOps and Devops) hashtag. Of course, CD is new to many teams. There are […]
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