Summary

Igor Moochnick of Constant Contact and I discuss dev ops, deployment pipelines and other architectural concerns.

Details

What Constant Contact does, Igor's role; what is dev ops, moving towards dev ops, provisioning servers, changes to dev cycles; from code to production deployment, source control, tracking code/sql and deployment pipelines; human intervention in the process; how the process changes have helped; reverting a deployment of an app, reverting a database, evolutionary databases; Jenkins CI, pipeline generator; architectural changes needed, decoupling release cycles of teams, SoA, microservices, shared libraries; enforcing rules, resistance to change, training dev teams to be independent; role of release engineering team; adoption of dev ops will be driven by commercial needs.