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Is anyone doing Continuous Deployment?

1 pointsby horse90about 3 years ago
I might be in a backwater IT market but the fact of the matter is that no company that I know of does CD in this market.<p>In fact most of them don&#x27;t actually do agile. They&#x27;re doing something like longish waterfall with manual QA and deployment.<p>The really weird thing though is that they do microservices - which looks more like a distributed monolith TBH.<p>What is happening? Is CD dead(ish) in the water?

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AndyPattersonabout 3 years ago
IMO a lot of teams can do CD but chose not to as they don&#x27;t have the risk appetite or maybe the resources to handle problems occurred at deployment time. (Tests, however many we have, simply won&#x27;t cover every scenario that could break a deployment).
cabracaabout 3 years ago
Not backwater IT market, more like the average.<p>Agile is cool if you have no dependencies. If you have to tie into some 15yo legacy system with a static release cycle its not so agile anymore.<p>Same with CD and microservices. I cant count how many times i had a requirement &quot;dont deploy to prod before x.y.z&quot; because thats when the required changes on some old system would go live. And even then you need approval of like three different departments...
mypalmikeabout 3 years ago
It depends entirely on whether a team is willing to put the effort into it - primarily this means thorough integration testing. I&#x27;ve worked on teams at very small and very large companies, and sometimes there&#x27;s CD and other times there&#x27;s not. Even within a team there&#x27;s sometimes deployments that are manual while others are automated.