Week 10 - Continuous Development

Learning Objectives:

In this week of the course, you will learn to:

• Relate continuous development to classic software process models (waterfall and agile)
• Identify the stages of a continuous development pipeline and describe how they relate to improving code velocity and quality
• Describe the difference between key deployment container abstractions and their role in modern software
• Describe the distinction between a DevOps and “traditional” developer/operator mentality

Lessons:

• 10.1: Software Processes and Continuous Development Video, Slides: PDF, PPT, Keynote
• 10.2: Continuous Integration Video, Slides: PDF, PPT, Keynote
• 10.3: Deployment Infrastructure Video, Slides: PDF, PPT, Keynote
• 10.4: Continuous Delivery Video, Slides: PDF, PPT, Keynote

Resources:

• Activity 10.1: Configuring CI/CD for Covey.Town
• Prof Bell’s in-class review notes

For further reading:

• Software Engineering @ Google, Chapters 23 (Continuous Integration), 24 (Continuous Delivery), 25 (Compute as a Service)
• Podcast: Jafar Soltani on Continuous Delivery for Multiplayer Games, with Nate Black, 2018
• Deploying Node.js Apps on Heroku