Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How to Build Better Software Faster (pdf)

Description

Written by Dave Farley – the inventor of the Continuous Delivery Deployment Pipeline and author of the award-winning book “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation”.

Dave Farley shares his advice and experience in this essential handbook on how to build, use and improve your Continuous Delivery Pipeline. This books explains what a Continuous Delivery Deployment Pipeline is, the key components and stages, including: Technical Testing, Acceptance Testing, Automation, Version Control and Infrastructure as Code. It also includes examples of world-class pipeline practice, and tips for improving your Deployment Pipelines.

If you want to create Better Software Faster, then you need Continuous Delivery, and at the heart of Continuous Delivery is the Deployment Pipeline.

You may already have a Deployment Pipeline, or be thinking about building your first! Either way, this practical handbook offers a step-by-step guide to get the best Deployment Pipeline for your software.

About the Author

Dave Farley is a pioneer of Continuous Delivery, thought-leader and expert practitioner in CD, DevOps, TDD and software development in general.

Dave has been a programmer, software engineer and systems architect for many years, from the early days of modern computing, taking those fundamental principles of how computers and software work, and shaping ground-breaking, innovative approaches that have changed how we approach modern software development. Dave has challenged conventional thinking and lead teams to build world class software.

Dave is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book – “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation”, and a popular conference speaker on Software Engineering. He built one of the world’s fastest financial exchanges, is a pioneer of BDD, an author of the Reactive Manifesto, and a winner of the Duke award for open source software with the LMAX Disruptor.

Dave is passionate about helping development teams around the world improve the design, quality and reliability of their software, by sharing his expertise through his consultancy, YouTube channel, training courses and books.