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Presentation: "From 2½ Days to 2½ Seconds - the Birth of DevOps"

Track: DevOps / Time: Thursday 13:20 - 14:10 / Location: Effectenbeurszaal

This is an experience report from the mid-2000s, where a fifty-person programme team was being held up by test environments that took an average of 2½ days to prepare. By developing strategies like Blue/Green Deployments, the Single Deployable Artifact, Container Templates, the Build Production Line and many of the other principles that led to Continuous Delivery, we brought this down to only a few minutes, with a near-instantaneous cutover for the users. The legendary team included the likes of Julian "Build Doctor" Simpson, Chris Read, Sam Newman and both the authors of the Continuous Delivery book, only one of whom swore a lot. Dan North is not the father of DevOps but he may be its midwife. He definitely assisted at the birth.

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Dan North, Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD

Dan North

Biography: Dan North

Dan writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn. He has been working in the IT industry since he graduated in 1991, and he occasionally blogs at dannorth.net.

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