BOOK: Continuous Delivery Handbook: Non Programmer’s Guide to DevOps, Microservices and Kubernetes (Stephen Fleming)

Amazon.com: Continuous Delivery Handbook : Non Programmer’s Guide to DevOps, Microservices and Kubernetes eBook: Stephen Fleming: Kindle Store

Quoting;

"(...) after going through this guide you would be able to appreciate Continuous Delivery through DevOps, Microservices and other related concepts like Kanban, Scrum, Agile, SOA, Monolith Architecture, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

-      This guide will clarify your conceptual queries with case studies, examples and diagrams.

-      You would also get to know about the leaders in DevOps and Microservices adoption and impact it had on the overall agility and hyper-growth of the adopters. This book covers the complete lifecycle for your understanding like Integrating, Testing, Deploying DevOps and Microservices architecture and the Security concerns while deploying it.

-      I am confident that after going through the book you would be able to navigate the discussion with any stakeholder and take your agenda ahead as per your role. Additionally, if you are new to the industry, and looking for an application development job, this book will help you to prepare with all the relevant information and understanding of the topic.

-      So, as Charles Darwin Said “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Be adaptive to the changes in the software Development Industry and ride ahead with Continuous Delivery."

BOOK: DevOps & Microservices Handbook: Non-Programmer's Guide to DevOps and Microservices (Stephen Fleming)

DevOps & Microservices Handbook: Non-Programmer's Guide to DevOps and Microservices, Stephen Fleming, eBook - Amazon.com

Quoting:

"(...) after going through this guide you would be able to appreciate DevOps, Microservices and other related concepts like Kanban, Scrum, Agile, SOA, Monolith Architecture, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

You would also get to know about the leaders in DevOps and Microservices adoption and impact it had on the overall agility and hyper-growth of the adopters. This book covers the complete lifecycle for your understanding like Integrating, Testing, Deploying DevOps and Microservices architecture and the Security concerns while deploying it.

I am confident that after going through the book you would be able to navigate the discussion with any stakeholder and take your agenda ahead as per your role. 

Additionally, if you are new to the industry, and looking for an application development job, this book will help you to prepare with all the relevant information and understanding of the topic.

** I am also providing additional booklet containing all the relevant news, trends, and resources for DevOps and Microservices Architecture.

"Grab your copy today along with DevOps and Microservices Booklet"


"One of the best Kubernetes books for beginners""

BOOK: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Jez Humble, David Farley) AKA "The Bible"

AKA the bible for CD:
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)): Jez Humble, David Farley: 9780321601919: Amazon.com: Books

Also make sure to read the PPT by Mr. Jez ("Adopting CD"):
https://pt.slideshare.net/InstitutLeanFrance/adopting-continuous-delivery-by-jez-humble


Quoting:
"Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.
This groundbreaking new book 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.

Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk
delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for
managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to
support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.

The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management
and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best
practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes

• Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software
• Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels
• Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations
• Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams
• Implementing an effective configuration management strategy
• Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation
• Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements
• Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases
• Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies
• Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing

Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your
organization move from idea to release faster than ever—so you can deliver value to your business
rapidly and reliably."

Metrics: Three metrics for measuring engineering speed (company / team velocity)

Three metrics for measuring engineering speed - SD Times

Quoting:
"Companies want to deliver high quality software fast, but how fast is fast enough? A recently released report by CircleCI found three important development metrics to predict an organization’s velocity and maturity.
The metrics are:

• mainline branch stability, 
• deploy time and 
• deploy frequency.

“Most teams have no idea what speed actually means,” said Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI. “They are deploying and they are doing it at a rate that feels good to them, but they don’t necessarily know where that stacks up compared to the rest of the market.”

The study looked at a sample of organizations built on the CircleCI’s cloud platform from June 1 to July 31, 2017."

CT: Continuous Testing for the testing bottleneck?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/10/30/how-to-pass-the-software-development-test/#13501252f019

Citando:
"A quick history lesson on why testing has become a bottleneck. Agile methodologies, DevOps and continuous delivery tool chains are modern practices that have been adopted and implemented to drive the speed of applications released into production. But modernizing the testing practices within the software development lifecycle hasn’t occurred at the same pace.

Why is that? Too many testing processes have been manual, slowing down the process and introducing the opportunity for human error. Additionally, a lack of visibility into the progression, status and results of QA testing has made it difficult for DevOps teams to determine if the code they built is truly aligned with the business and customer requirements. A telling stat is that 63% of organizations that implemented DevOps practices report that Testing/QA practices are a bottleneck."

SW Design: Microservices and nanoservices?

What is this all about?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

Quoting:
"Microservices is a variant of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services.

In a microservices architecture, services should be fine-grained and the protocols should be lightweight. The benefit of decomposing an application into different smaller services is that it improves modularity and makes the application easier to understand, develop and test. It also parallelizes development by enabling small autonomous teams to develop, deploy and scale their respective services independently. It also allows the architecture of an individual service to emerge through continuous refactoring. Microservices-based architectures enable continuous delivery and deployment."
(...)
"The microservices approach is a first realisation of SOA that followed the introduction of DevOps and is becoming more popular for building continuously deployed systems."