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What is good release engineering?


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This week we talk with Jean-Sébastien Pedron, RabbitMQ and FreeBSD contributor, about the importance of good release engineering for core infrastructure. Both Jean-Sébastien and I have been part of the Core RabbitMQ team for many years now. We have built some of the biggest CI/CD pipelines (check the show notes for one example), wrote and shipped some great code together, while breaking and fixing many things in the process.

We have been wrestling with today’s topic since 2016. Jean-Sébastien has some great FreeBSD stories to share, as well as an interesting perspective on shipping graphic card drivers. Oh, and by the way, it’s probably our fault why your remote car key stopped working that afternoon. It will all make sense after you listen to this episode.

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  • Featuring:

    • Jean-Sébastien Pedron – GitHub
    • Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

    Show Notes:

    • FreeBSD release engineering
    • Netflix and FreeBSD: Using open source to deliver streaming video
    • List of products based on FreeBSD
    • Darktable
    • Mesa
    • Erlang hot code reloading:
      • Appup cookbook
      • Target system principles
      • RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline in 2020 - each square is either a test suite, build or publish step

        Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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