1. Death of the Monolith: microservices

    Software was once delivered as monolithic, fear-inducing, complex forklift upgrades, with database schema migrations, application updates, library updates, configuration updates and plenty of downtime. Sometimes, there was a gut-wrenching irrevocable critical step in the process (often a schema update). Today, this is largely a relic and bad memory now, thanks, in part, to Virtualization and Containerization technologies, Network APIs and the move to microservices.

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  2. Continuous Build with the Open Build Service

    Reproducible build has long been a known (and mostly solved) problem. Many automation steps can exist between authorship of a new feature or a bug fix and the delivery of that update to an infrastructure. Automation is important to allow shrinking this temporal gap between developer and infrastructure. Here, I highlight one approach to continuous delivery and the supporting components. I identify the Open Build Service (OBS), as one of the good solutions to the desire for continuous build.

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