Please understand, dear Reader, that I write this with positive intention. I'm not here to impugn any person or organization. I want to talk about some decisions and their natural consequences. These consequences seem negative to me and after reading this post you may agree. When an established company faced a technology innovation, they often create a new team to adopt and exploit that innovation. During my career, I've seen this pattern play out with microcomputers, client/server architecture, open systems, web development, agile development, cloud architecture, NoSQL, and DevOps.
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C9D9 on Architecture for Continuous Delivery Every single person I've heard talk about Continuous Delivery says you have to change your system's architecture to succeed with it. Despite that, we keep seeing "lift and shift" efforts. So I was happy to be invited to join a panel to discuss architecture for Continuous Delivery. We had an online discussion last Tuesday on the C9D9 series, hosted by Electric Cloud. They made the recording available immediately after the panel, along with a shiny new embed code.
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Development is Production When I was at Totality, we treated an outage in our customers' content management system as a Sev 2 issue. It ranked right behind "Revenue Stopped" in priority. Content management is critical to the merchants, copy writers, and editors. Without it, they cannot do their jobs. For some reason, we always treated dev environment or QA environment issues as a Sev 3 or 4, with the "when I get around to it"
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