A Children's A to Z of Continuous Delivery
A Children's A to Z of Continuous Delivery
About the Book
Hello! Continuous Delivery is really important, but it's also really hard. Denise Yu and Steve Smith thought it might be fun to share with you a friendly introduction to the best bits of Continuous Delivery, in a medium that everyone can understand.
This 26-page book will provide an overview of Continuous Delivery from "A to Z" in the form of sketchnotes. From "A is for Automation" to "I is for Incremental Deployment" and onto "Z is for Zzzzzz", we've got you covered.
Who Should Read This Book
New and experienced practitioners of Continuous Delivery. Kids. Anyone who likes drawings of cats using computers.
Foreword
The foreword to this book will be written by Dave Farley, co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). Dave's a big kid at heart, and likes drawings of cats using computers.
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About the Contributors

Continuous Delivery author
Dave Farley is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general. He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book Continuous Delivery a regular conference speaker and blogger and one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto. Dave is the former Head of Software development at LMAX Ltd, home of the OSS Disruptor, a company that are well known for the excellence of their code and the exemplary nature of their development process. Dave is now an independent software developer and consultant, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Dave Farley
- About Denise Yu
- About Steve Smith
- What is Continuous Delivery?
- A is for Automation
- B is for Batch Size
- C is for Cloud
- D is for DevOps
- E is for Environments
- F is for Feature Toggles
- G is for Generative Culture
- H is for Handoffs
- I is for Incremental Deployment
- J is for Jobs To Do
- K is for Knowledge Sharing
- L is for Lean
- M is for Measurement
- N is for No Projects
- O is for Operability
- P is for Pipeline
- Q is for Quality
- R is for Resilience
- S is for Stateful
- T is for Tools
- U is for Unknowables
- V is for Versioning
- W is for ???
- X is for XP
- Y is for ???
- Z is for Zzzzz
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