Design, Build, Ship: Faster, Safer Software Delivery

What's the best way to get code from your laptop into a production environment? With this highly actionable guide, architects, developers, engineers, and others in the IT space will learn everything from local development builds to continuous integration and continuous delivery, and from mobile, IOT, and container-based deployments to infrastructure automation and testing.

Author Sam Newman (Building Microservices) provides real-world examples to depict the end-to-end journey through today's state-of-the art build and deployment process. Much has changed in just a few years: the cloud has grown, mobile development has proliferated, DevOps is finding wider acceptance, and the IoT is very much in play. You'll start with the big picture and then dive into individual topics that govern modern software production.

This book explores:

• Automated builds, version control, repeatable builds, and artifact storage
• What continuous integration includes--and what it doesn't
• Version control basics, cherry picking, release branching, gitflow, and pull requests
• Core tenets of continuous delivery and the technology behind it
• Application deployment topics, including artifact types and deployment platforms
• Why you should treat testing and monitoring/alerting as an inseparable whole
• How modules, static linking, and microservices enable you to deploy software quickly

Sam Newman is interested in how different aspects of technology intersect, from development, to ops, to security, usability, and organizational structures. After 20 years in the industry, Sam now runs his own consulting and training company Sam Newman and Associates, focusing in the area of Microservices, Cloud and CI/CD.

Sam has worked with a variety of companies across multiple industries all over the globe, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Sam is the author of the bestselling Building Microservices from O’Reilly.