Deploying projects vs products

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.

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Featuring:

• Verónica López – LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links

CVE-2024-3094
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cyber Resilience Act

All the releases of the rainbow 🌈

Options discussed:

• Blue/Green
• Red/Black
• Canary
• Feature flagging/Dark launch
• A/B testing
• Database migrations

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:52)

3. Sponsor: Synadia (00:15:58)

https://www.synadia.com/changelog

4. Welcome Verónica López (00:19:31)

5. Big service pressures (00:23:03)

6. Be nice to open source devs! (00:26:29)

7. JavaScript vs Kubernetes (00:29:57)

8. End-of-life cycles and dev burnout (00:31:49)

9. Contributing to open source (00:36:11)

10. Balancing releases (00:37:28)

11. Release best practices (00:40:58)

12. Simplifing dependencies (00:42:44)

13. Blocked releases (00:47:20)

14. Where to reach out (00:52:30)

15. Sponsor: Sentry (00:54:08)

https://blog.sentry.io/ai-powered-autofix-debugs-and-fixes-your-code-in-minutes/?utm_source=changelog-news

16. The closer (00:57:41)

17. Outro (01:12:53)