What You NEED To Know About Amazon's Software Development
498Amazon are an enormously successful company, built on software. Amazon software not only runs their own business, but also the businesses of many, many other, often very famous, companies, via Amazon Web Services (AWS). So why are, and how are they so good at software development? Well Amazon are, and have been for a long time, a Continuous Delivery Company. They practice a full-blown, sophisticated version of this world’s best approach to software development. So what do they do and how do they do it?
In this episode Dave Farley author of best selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” examines how Amazon software engineers describe their own software development process, how it works and how it makes their jobs easier. The software development lifecycle is a tool to help us to build better software faster, and Amazon do this very well using automation to reduce drudgery and increase reliability and repeatability.
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🖇 LINKS:
“Werner Vogels Talk from 2007” ➡️ https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/werner-vogels-pres/
“How Amazon do CD” ➡️ https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/continuous-delivery-amazon/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=devops&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=08042020
“Automating Safe, Hands-off, Deployments at Amazon” ➡️ https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/automating-safe-hands-off-deployments/
“Going Faster With Continuous Delivery”, Amazon ➡️ https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/going-faster-with-continuous-delivery/
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