How Digg does continuous deployment

Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by jamesshamenski on Friday July 23, 2010 @01:44PM (#1541863)

Could someone name other companies that do continuous deployment? I've only heard that IMVU uses buildbot.

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by brainsik on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:08PM (#1541931)

Buildbot is used for continuous integration, which is a big step along the path to continuous deployment. A lot of companies are doing this today. Fewer are doing continuous deployment. kaChing has some posts about their setup:

http://eng.kaching.com/2010/05/deployment-infrastructure-for...

http://eng.kaching.com/2010/06/applied-lean-startup-ideas-co...

And I believe many of the companies featured in the Startup Lessons Learned conference are doing continuous deployment:

http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/videos

There's a lot of momentum towards this. The company I'm at is working to get there.

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by Lewisham on Friday July 23, 2010 @03:22PM (#1542154)

Yeah, it's important to make the distinction between continuous deployment and continuous integration.

Continuous integration is a fairly simple thing: detect a new source commit, run a battery of tests on it, report back. Hudson is a really good one (of which the original author is a main contributor, and I did some plugin work for a while), and I use it as a fairly fancy looking cron as well.

Continuous deployment, as described in the article, is much more difficult. Not only do you have the slew of tests, but maybe you want more long-running tests that you don't care to run all the time. Maybe you want code reviews. You'll need to automate the actual deployment process and so on.

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by cwinters on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:39PM (#1542039)

Etsy (not surprising since John Allspaw from flickr is head of ops):

http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/2340/read/etsys_cont...

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by eries on Friday July 23, 2010 @04:10PM (#1542272)

IMVU has done continuous deployment for many years (way before it was cool). For details, I think this presentation is probably the best: http://www.slideshare.net/bgdurrett/sds-2010-continuous-depl...

I've also contributed a chapter on it to the new O'Reilly Web Operations book: http://bit.ly/WebOperations

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by shykes on Friday July 23, 2010 @04:17PM (#1542296)

As far as I'm concerned, IMVU made continuous deployment cool.

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by MartinCron on Friday July 23, 2010 @03:10PM (#1542119)

Automattic/Wordpress.com does either automated Continuous Deployment or have their deployments so streamlined that releases are made very frequently and are (almost always) non-events.

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Re:How Digg does continuous deployment by sv123 on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:13PM (#1541954)

I believe facebook does it as well, trying to find a video I saw from a while back to post.

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