Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson.
Christie holds a Bachelor of Technology, Data Communication, Network Administration & Security from The British Columbia Institute of Technology. Today she is a Software Engineer at Google working on Go and Python, Specializing in distributed systems, scalable and maintainable code. She co-created Tekton, a cloud-native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes.
Grokking Continuous Delivery teaches you the design and purpose of continuous delivery systems that you can use with any language or technology stack. I have always enjoyed reading all Grokking titles. Christie outlines in fact, the basic nuts and bolts of continuous delivery. Perfect for for developers and pipeline designers. She demonstrates the proper approaches to tackle real-world challenges regarding CD pipelines.
CD is in fact, a very well written book for software engineers seeking to understand, implement, and master CD pipelines. The book is certainly practical and is a great resource for both new users seeking to understand CD and experienced engineers.
CD pipelines are critical to learn
A strong point of the book is taking a tool agnostic view. So regardless of the reader’s technology stack the real-world scenarios from scaling automation to managing legacy test suites are all very practical exercises. Christie’s frequent use of a fictional “Cat Picture Website” project, helps readers visualize examples how CD principles apply in real world environments.
Christie covers the essential topics including designing effective CD pipelines, maintaining robust tests, scaling across multiple applications, and safely automating deployments. Readers will certainly gain an understanding to the importance of version control as the single source of truth. Stronger words have never been said as this is absolutely critical for any project success.
In conclusion, Grokking Continuous Delivery is a welcoming and highly practical guide. Christie is defining clear explanations, real-world examples, and even hands-on exercises. Readers will not only understand continuous delivery but can learn how to implement it confidently.