Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe
What it is
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond's Velocity 09 talk on how Flickr achieved ten or more deploys per day through close cooperation between development and operations.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN regards it as a pivotal early talk in the DevOps movement and the original source for the idea.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“It was really a pivotal talk in the early days of the DevOps movement”
Flickr talk on ten-plus deploys per day that shaped DevOps
expathacker, 2018-10 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”
“consider the original source which is this talk from Flickr”
Original Flickr talk on dev and ops cooperation
dijit, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “How to properly manage SSH keys for server access”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: continuous deployment, flickr, dev and ops, velocity conference, release engineering
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