From 6 Month Waterfall to 1h Code Deploys

Explore the transformative journey of a software company from a traditional waterfall approach to rapid, continuous deployment in this 53-minute conference talk. Learn how the organization evolved to deliver feature releases every two weeks for both on-premise and SaaS offerings, achieving 170 SaaS production changes daily and the capability to deploy code changes within an hour. Discover the implementation of a robust DevOps pipeline that executes 31,000 unit and integration tests hourly, along with 60 hours of UI testing per build. Gain insights into how application teams became end-to-end responsible for their features, utilizing production monitoring to catch 93% of bugs before impacting end users. Understand the challenges and successes of this organizational shift, including the crucial role of a four-person DevOps team. Delve into the "dark moments" and friction encountered during this transformation, both internally and with customers adapting to more frequent changes.