The BIRTH Of Continuous Delivery With Jez Humble

Jez Humble & Dave Farley talk about discovery Continuous Delivery as a software engineering approach. They reflect on whether they actually "invented" continuous delivery, or were there others?

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[brownhorsesoftware]

You might be interested to know that the deployment technique described is similar to how they deployed the switch running the ATMs on the systems I worked on in the very early 1980s. The switch ran on a mini, I don't remember which, and they would deploy to a second mini and then point the network to it. The company running the switch was Boeing Computer Services in Seattle. So yes, engineering - that was the old Boeing. Cloud computing in 1981: ATMs in Chicago, switch in Seattle.

[esra_erimez]

I have your seminal book with me most of the time. I have read it and reread parts of it over and over.

[GDScriptDude]

Always be humble about one's achievements.

[dominiquefortin]

Bleu green deployment (2005) is the same thing as switching frame buffer in a graphic card (first commercialized in 1974).

[edgeeffect]

I'm sure that Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham and Abu Bakr al-Razi would have a thing or two to say about the "1600" on your T. shirt, Dave. ;)

[willdmindmind]

Of course you didn't invent basic things like source code control, QA/Quality Control, requirements and design, testing software, deployment processes or any of the other fundamental aspects of software development. A lot of this modern idea of continuous delivery is primarily a result of the evolution of hardware and software over time. You couldn't do continuous delivery with the old school Windows C++ MFC applications of the 2000s or old C/C++ applications on unix of the 90s or with version control systems like SCCS or without KVM or Hyper V based virtualization and so forth. However, unfortunately a lot of these fundamental basics of software seem to be associated as exclusive to CD when in reality they aren't and have always been there going back decades.