Company
Date Published
Author
Erez Berkner
Word count
1350
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Amazon Builders' Library series highlights the key insights from an article by Mark Mansour on "Going faster with Continuous Delivery". The article discusses how AWS adopted Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques to improve their business, which ultimately led to the development of the CodePipeline service. The value of Continuous Delivery lies in its ability to automate processes, reduce manual work, and increase quality and speed of releases. Amazon's journey with CD started over 10 years ago and involved automating processes, using tools like Pipelines, Testing prior to production, deployment hygiene, controlling when software is released, validating in production, and organizational improvement. These techniques enabled teams to release frequently, improve quality, and reduce defects, ultimately driving the growth of AWS as a business. The article emphasizes that Continuous Deployment can be adopted by organizations of any size with the right techniques, tools, culture, and goal of iterative improvement.