Continuous Delivery. Practices and Real experiences. Presentation at Webbeds

This past Friday, I had the great luck of being able to share a few hours with the webbeds team in Palma de Mallorca and make a presentation about agile and continuous delivery.

Thanks to Marcos Pacheco for contacting me and for the invitation. Thanks to the webbed team for the exciting Q&A round.

I hope that the presentation has generated interesting conversations internally and that you can experiment with some of the ideas presented.

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Good talks/podcasts (September 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks/ebooks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Podcasts
• Screaming in the cloud: How to Grade DevOps Teams with Nicole Forsgren, PhD 
• Software Engineering Daily Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck
• Software Engineering Daily Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 1) with Charity Majors
• https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/high-performance-cultures/ Randy Shoup on Creating High-Performance Cultures InfoQ Culture podcast
• Devops / Agile culture
• Better value sooner safer happier  Jon_Smart. Very funny and interesting talk about culture.
• Other
• Helping Product Managers to let go Michael Sippey
• Cloud-Native Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka Gwen Shapira 
• Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery Dave Farley

Audiobooks:

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Tim Ferriss

Good talks/podcasts (August 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks/ebooks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Engineering Leadership
• Inno-Versity Presents: Greatness by David Marquet  (https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404/)
• http://simpleleadership.io/why-becoming-an-effective-leader-involves-changing-the-language-you-use-with-krister-ungerbock/
• Ep. #9, High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble (o11ycast podcast)
• System design:
• AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small ARC337

Audiobooks (I recommend them all):

• The Five Elements of Effective Thinking Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't Simon Sinek
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Jim Collins

Good talks/podcasts (July 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Building and Scaling a High-Performance Culture Randy Shoup. A great talk about culture for high-performance tech organizations. Good complement for Accelerate and based in his experience at ebay and google.
• We Talked To Product Management Legend Marty Cagan. Here’s What We Learned | BUILD Podcast A great podcast episode about product management, product teams, with the great Marty Cagan. As always, many insights for any company selling tech-based products.
• Architecture
• JOTB19 - Istio Service Mesh & pragmatic microservices architecture Alex Soto
• Forging a Functional Enterprise: How thinking Functionally Transforms Line-of-Business Applications Scott Havens. A lot of good ideas at the architecture level.
• Adidas Digital Platform Where Cloud Native Meets the Sporting Goods Industry Benjamin Grimm, Fernando Cornago. Interesting description of his journey towards agility (of course introducing a DevOps culture).
• Others:
• https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcast/dont-sugar-coat-your-culture/ Friction Podcast Patty McCord. Interesting conversation about Netflix culture of freedom and responsibility.
• Why you should have your own black box Matthew Syed | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

Good talks/podcasts (July 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Kent Beck - XP 2018 
• Cultivating Instinct Katrina Owen
• Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson - Cucumber Podcast 
• Advanced Continuous Delivery Best Practices (DEV317-R1) (AWS re:Invent 2018)
• Super Sizing Your Servers and the Payback Trap Dr. Neil J. Gunther. (LISA14)
• Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB (DAT403-R) (AWS re:Invent 2017)
• How Finding & Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection Steve Spear. Knowing how to get smarter, faster matters a lot :) 

Good talks/podcasts / Scalability theory (June 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently. As I needed to refresh some concepts, this time, the main topic is scalability theory.

• Theory:
• Scalability is Quantifiable: The Universal Scalability Law Baron Schwartz
• Queueing Theory in Practice: Performance Modeling for the Working Engineer Eben Freeman
• Applied Performance Theory Kavya Joshi
• Super Sizing Your Servers and the Payback Trap Neil J. Gunther
• Practice:
• Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB (DAT403-R) Rick Houlihan. Some patterns to design scalable systems using DynamoDB