Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley

This is a special episode of Small Batches. I interview Dave
Farley in this episode.


Dave, along with Jez Humble, is the co-author of "Continuous
Delivery" published in 2010. The book introduced the ideas that
grew into DevOps. So, no surprise that DevOps and continuous
delivery are the same most people. 


Together Dave and Jez introduced continuous delivery to the
world. The practices and ideas still hold true ten years on.


Time and research have demonstrated that continuous delivery is
the most effective way to develop software. If you’ve read
Accelerate then you know what I’m talking about. That’s partially
why am so passionate about it and that doesn’t even account for
the fun I have working in that environment.


Dave and I talked about different aspects of continuous delivery
beginning with the difference between software development and
software engineering. Or as Dave put’s it: scientific
rationalism.


We also speak about the connection from delivery, feedback, and
experimentation. Or, as he put’s it: "just doing engineering".


He also shared why he doesn’t like the term DevOps. I gotta say I
tend agree with him after hearing his reasoning. 


Lastly I get his view on the Preflight Checks I mentioned in an
early episode of this podcast. Go to smallbatches.fm/11 for that
episode.


Now I give you my conversation with Dave Farley.


You can find Dave at:


The Continuous Delivery book

His YouTube channel

His blog

His consulting services

On Twitter

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