The foundations of Continuous Delivery (Interview)

This week we’re sharing one of the most popular episodes from our new podcast Ship It. Ship It launched in May and now has 8 episodes in the feed to enjoy…it’s hosted by Gerhard Lazu, our SRE here at Changelog.

In this episode, Gerhard talks with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery and the inventor of the Deployment Pipeline. Today, most of us ship code the way we do because 25 years ago, Dave cared enough to drive the change that we now call CI/CD. He is one of the great software engineers: opinionated, perseverant & focused since the heydays of the internet. Dave continues inspiring and teaching us all via his newly launched YouTube channel, courses, and recent books. The apprentice finally meets the master 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️

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Featuring:

• Dave Farley – Website, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Continuous Delivery, the YouTube Channel (new video every Wednesday)
• Continuous Delivery, the course
• Continuous Delivery, the staple book
• Continuous Delivery Pipelines, the new book
• Dave Farley’s blog
• TDD Quiz
• Dave Farley on Twitter

Gerhard’s favourite CD videos, in order of preference:

• SpaceX and Software Engineering | How To Learn
• How To Build Quality Software Fast
• Why CI is BETTER Than Feature Branching
• What’s Wrong With The State Of DevOps?

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!