Learning DevOps: Continuously Deliver Better Software

Streaming

Let's compare your software-release process to a river (I did say it was a bit of a tangent):

• At the very beginning, many small streams flowed downhill and converged into a river. This river flowed along, but the progress was impeded by a series of locks and a massive man-made dam.
• The river then backed up and started to form a reservoir.
• Every few months, the sluice gates were opened, and the water flowed freely, but this was normally a short-lived and frantic rush.
• As you identified and started to remove the man-made obstacles, the flow started to become more even, but it was still hindered by some very large boulders further downstream.
• You then set about systematically removing these boulders one by one, which again increased the flow; ...