CD Office Hours Ep.8: AI efficiency and effectiveness

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony, Bob, and Steve propose a raising of standards for software delivery. While most development teams can agree on some basic capabilities, like using version control rather than a network share to store code, as soon as you go beyond the simplest things, the level of agreement […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony, Bob, and Steve tackle the controversial headline “DevOps is dead” and unpack our industry’s bizarre obsession with killing off its own concepts. We seem to suffer from a collective amnesia every six to twelve months, leading us to abandon powerful ideas as soon as they get […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Steve, Charlotte, and Matt take a sneaky look at the forthcoming Future of Platform Engineering report. They look at changes in adoption patterns since the Platform Engineering Pulse report published last year. The pressure to force adoption has increased with AI stealing all the oxygen in the […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony, Bob, and Steve focus on the concept of “haute culture”, or high-performing organizational culture. Culture design and posters on the wall do nothing without consistent daily proof through small interactions. When you say you provide psychological safety but respond to an incident with “Who’s responsible?” you […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly chats to Bob Walker and Steve Fenton about modernizing legacy applications. Many teams and organizations face the decision on whether to modernize software that’s been running for years, and it’s no small undertaking. Listen to find out more about: Episode details You can also watch […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Steve Fenton is joined by Octopus Deploy founder Paul Stovell to explore the hidden bottleneck in the AI productivity conversation that nobody is talking about: compliance and risk tolerance. Everyone wants code written faster, so they are turning to AI to make it happen. But the constraint […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss some of the tangled pathways around AI, the search for efficiency and productivity, and the need to re-focus on effectiveness and outcomes. You’ll find out about the beneficiary user versus end user divergence and where asymmetry can cause bad […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss modern multi-tenancy and how different it is today than during the SaaS revolution. Multi-tenancy has a single purpose; sharing resources between users to get higher utilization from physical infrastructure by sharing it. Originally that meant time sharing on a […]

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss the purpose and common pitfalls of software change approvals. They argue that strict, manual change approval processes are often just a reflex to past organizational trauma and an attempt to have “humans on the hook” to blame, rather than […]

While application code deployments have become highly automated and disciplined, database changes often remain manual, “folksy,” and prone to causing messy environment drift. Find out why databases require a uniquely cautious approach due to the severe risks of data loss and the impossibility of simple rollbacks, emphasizing the need to treat database deployments with the […]