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Continuous Delivery All-day Workshop Pt 2: Agile Infrastructure

Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This workshop sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours–sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.

In the second half of the workshop, we introduce agile infrastructure, including the use of Puppet to automate the management of testing and production environments. We'll discuss automating data management, including migrations. Development practices that enable incremental development and delivery will be covered at length, including a discussion of why branching is inimical to continuous delivery, and how practices such as branch by abstraction and componentization provide superior alternatives that enable large and distributed teams to deliver incrementally.

About Neal Ford

Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery.

Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis.

He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of 6 books, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Groovy, functional languages, Scheme, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

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Blogs

Devs in the ‘Ditch Slides Posted

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on May. 21, 2013

I gave a talk at Devs in the ‘Ditch last week when I was in London. I posted the slides on slideshare: Overcoming Three Pitfalls of Transitioning to Agile. The very nice people at 7digital made a video and posted i

Day 15 of 100 Know You Are Managing Time to Market & How To Do It

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 17, 2013

Continuing with the 100 Things You Must Know to Be Effective In Software Development The purpose of development/IT is to deliver value quickly - not just for a team, but for the entire organization. If you reflect on this, it's not about going fas

Day 14 of 100 There is more than customer value

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 15, 2013

Continuing with the 100 Things You Must Know to Be Effective In Software Development While adding value to the customer is the ultimate goal, there is more than customer value. There are actually at least five different types of business value: kn

Auto-Refresh for Play Framework Apps

Posted By: James Ward on May. 15, 2013

Over this past weekend I built a little tool for Play Framework app developers which auto-refreshes an app in Chrome when the source code or static assets change. Check out a video demonstration: For information on how to set it up, check out the

Android Panel and Kiosk Apps

Posted By: James Harmon on May. 14, 2013

One advantage of doing business in the Chicago area is getting to see lots of manufacturers. The Midwest still builds stuff.As an Android developer who gets to talk with many of the local companies I've recently noticed a pattern in the Andro

Day 13 of 100 Systems Thinking From Individual to Organization

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 14, 2013

Hi everyone. To pick the pace back up I'm going to write either shorter blogs or, as in today, I will take some previous work and mold it into this work. I appreciate your patience and will get things going

Securing Single Page Apps and REST Services

Posted By: James Ward on May. 13, 2013

The move towards Single Page Apps and RESTful services open the doors to a much better way of securing web applications. Traditional web applications use browser cookies to identify a user when a request is made to the server. This approach is fu

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Themes at ÜberConf

Architecture
Enterprise Java
Java Internals
Security - Enterprise & JVM
Cloud Computing
Languages on the JVM - Groovy, JRuby, Scala & Clojure
Java Web Frameworks - Wicket, Tapestry & SpringMVC
Build Systems - Maven & Gradle
Testing
Agility

Featured Speaker

Cliff Click

CTO & Co-Founder of 0xdata

Cliff Click is the CTO and Co-Founder of 0xdata, a firm dedicated to creating a new way to think about web-scale data storage and real-time analytics. Cliff wrote his first compiler when he was 15 (Pascal to TRS Z-80!), although my most famous compiler is the HotSpot Server Compiler (the Sea of Nodes IR). I helped Azul Systems build an 864 core pure-Java mainframe that keeps GC pauses on 500Gb heaps to under 10ms, and worked on all aspects of that JVM. Before that Cliff worked on HotSpot at Sun Microsystems, and am at least partially responsible for bringing Java into the mainstream. Cliff is invited to speak regularly at industry and academic conferences and has published many papers about HotSpot technolog..More » All Speakers »

Alan Shalloway

Lead Author of Design Patterns Explained, Essential Skills for Agile Developer

Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Al is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Al is a SAFe Program Consultant as well as a certified Kanban instructor by the Lean Kanban University. Al has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped Net Objectives' clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Des..More » All Speakers »

Esther Derby

Co-author of "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management"

I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. I’ve written over 100 articles, and co-authored two books–Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. I write about management, leadership, collaboration, organizations and change (or another topic I’m ..More » All Speakers »

Heinz Kabutz

Publisher of The Java Specialists Newsletter

Dr Heinz Kabutz is best known for his creation of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, read in 130 countries by 70000 Java experts. In his newsletter, he examines advanced aspects of Java that have helped Java developers around the world to produce better code. As someone remarked on the Sun website: "Heinz Kabutz is a hero in the Java Developer Community. His newsletters have saved companies millions by helping burgeoning and experienced programmers deliver high quality products." Heinz writes Java code on contract and runs seminars. His latest creation, the Concurrency Specialist Course, is a detailed study of how Java concurrency works. More » All Speakers »

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