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About the Book

Build Quality In

Build Quality In is a book of Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports from the wild.

The interdependent disciplines of Continuous Delivery and DevOps are of immense value to an organisation, but they are hard. We have seen Continuous Delivery and DevOps work in the wild, as have other practitioners. We want to help people on their own Continuous Delivery and DevOps journey, by sharing the experiences of those who have done it – what worked, what didn’t, and the highs and lows of trying to build quality into an organisation.

Contributors

We have an incredible group of Continuous Delivery and DevOps practitioners, who have freely shared their own first-hand experiences in this area.

Thanks to all our contributors!

Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton

Forewords

The Continuous Delivery foreword is written by Dave Farley. Dave Farley is co-author of the Jolt award winning book Continuous Delivery. He has been having fun with computers for over 30 years. Over that period he has worked on most types of software. He has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s. More recently Dave has worked in the field of low latency computing developing high performance software for the finance industry. Dave currently works for KCG Ltd.

The DevOps foreword is written by Patrick Debois. Patrick Debois is a developer, manager, sysadmin, and tester. He first presented concepts on Agile Infrastructure at Agile 2008 in Toronto, and in 2009 he organized the first DevOpsDays . Since then he has been promoting the notion of ‘devops’ to exchange ideas between these groups and show how they can help each other to achieve better results in business.

Code Club

We are donating 70% of author royalties to Code Club – a not-for-profit organisation that runs a UK-wide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 9-11. We passionately believe that diversity within the IT industry must improve, and efforts must start in our schools. A purchase of our book at $20.00 will yield a donation of $12.26 and a purchase at $25.00 will yield a donation of $15.40.

Thank you for buying Build Quality In. As well as providing a range of in-depth Continuous Delivery and DevOps stories, your purchase will contribute to children learning to code and general skills such as problem solving and collaboration regardless of their gender or ethnicity.

About the Editors

Steve Smith

Steve is the Global SVP of Modernization & Platforms at Equal Experts. With over 20 years of experience in digital delivery programmes, he advises engineering leaders in large enterprise organizations on how to transform delivery, operations, and culture at scale.

Steve focuses on adopting aligned autonomy and modern engineering practices, so teams can understand the big picture while accelerating in speed, quality, and reliability. He combines people, processes, and tools into the technology capabilities needed to minimize time to value and total cost of ownership.

Steve has led numerous complex transformations. He established platform engineering and continuous delivery for 80 teams/1000 microservices in a £500M UK government department. He introduced paved roads and the You Build It You Run It model into 40 teams/100 microservices for a £10B UK retailer. And he advised a $9B US media conglomerate on integrating reliability engineering into 40 teams/120 microservices for a greenfield streaming platform.

Steve is an industry thought leader on modern engineering topics such as Continuous Delivery, platform engineering, the Accelerate metrics, and You Build It You Run It. He's a regular conference speaker, a presenter on the Modern Software Engineering channel, and wrote the books Measuring Continuous Delivery and Build Quality In. He's also a co-organizer of Agile On The Beach, a technology conference in Cornwall since 2011.

Matthew Skelton

@matthewpskelton

Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com. He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.