Got Pipelines?

I can’t start with the traditional “ladies and gentlemen” since gender isn’t boolean.

So, folks:

Happy Friday! :)

I would like to draw your attention to the new book on the block

“The Power Of Continuous Delivery In DevOps: Reduce Difficulty By Increasing Frequency Of Your Product Releases”.

It’s about ~28.5 K words deep and both the eBook and paperback are in color. The eBook can be obtained by itself. The paperback is 8.5” by 11” in size and 130 pages long, and the eBook comes free with it.

I have been socializing related concepts over the last few years, and you will find some appetizers on my website.

The subject matter covered in this book is still not a discipline that’s taught in school. Big thanks to Martin Fowler, Jez Humble, and Eric Evans, for the awesome resources they provide to enable self-learning.

I am grateful to my friends, colleagues and partners at LifeLock, Gap Inc., Yahoo!, Apple, GoPro, ThoughtWorks, CloudBees, Sonatype, ElectricCloud, TechBeacon, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. and Walmart for the wonderful opportunities that I shared with you folks in “Doing The Right Thing”. I will appreciate if you share this post within your network and write a book review with your candid thoughts.

TL;DR

If you are looking to make your business sustainable and your releases uneventful,

Continuous Everything (Everyone | Integration | Testing | Delivery | Deployment | Analytics)

is the way to go. Whether you realize it or not, you are involved, and Continuous Everyone is a “thing” now!

This book deals with Domain-driven design (DDD) of Continuous Delivery Pipelines, and maintaining the domain model integrity over a period of time, through numerous Scrum teams and across multiple tech stacks. It dives into analytics and insights that can be generated from Pipelines to steer enterprises in the right direction. It addresses controversies surrounding Separation of Duties and busts many a myth that slows us down. It provides a Seed Backlog to jumpstart uninitiated teams, and this backlog will also come handy to those who have already started this journey. “The Twelve-Factor Pipeline” is inspired by “The Twelve-Factor App” to re-instate the Pipeline as a first-class citizen and a product in its own right. The most important takeaway is that Continuous Everything is neither a checklist nor a destination, and Continuous Improvement is at the heart of it.

I strongly recommend that you let this book influence your choices and priorities within your immediate and even larger organization. After all, the mantra of Economics is that “People make choices with scarce resources, and they interact with others when they make these choices." I hope the chapters help you find your true north and bring out the transformational leader in you.

FAQs

1) Where can I get a sneak peek at this book?

Here: https://continuity.world/2017-book

And

There: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074Z1C843. Replace “.com” with your regional domain.

2) What is the style of the author?

Authentic and direct.

3) Is poetry involved?

Of course, as always! I am beginning to think poetry should be made mandatory in technology to optimally utilize both hemispheres of the brain.

This time around, there’s music too.

Will there be dancing in the future? I don’t know.

4) Is this book a replacement for the first book?

No. The first one focused on what we *should not* do within a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and the various choke points that we should be wary of. It’s still relevant and there are details at https://continuity.world/2015-book.

This second one focuses on what we *should* do in terms of design, why we should do it, and how.

The first book has a darker skin and the second one is relatively fair, and we know the importance of not judging by skin color. No, not even books.

5) Oh, and will there be a third book?

Ah well…word on the street is something around how AI can transform Continuous Delivery. Just saying.

Cheers, and thank you!

Juni.