I know its been a while but here in May I did my first talk this year. Actually I havent done a presentation in front of a larger crew for more than 5 years or so. So I was a bit rusty – but it was a great kick and a lot of fun!

It was a meetup around Resilient Architectures and I had a talk about “War Stories from the deployment trenches“. My presentation was divided into multiple subjects:

• History around delpoyment mechanisms through time and why/how it have developed
• Key findings
• Building PEREs new platform
• Immutable Infrastructures & Continues Deployments (CD)
• Demo simple immutable strategy and deployment

Everything went fine (also the demo!= and it was ag great meetup with people having a lot of questions and wanted to discuss afterwards.

You can see the full presentation HERE.

But my simple keyfinding and recommendations  are these:

• Use General Agile principels in your organization
• Do not optimize prematurely (“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” (Donald Knuth)
• Avoid complexity – KISS –
• Version everything!
• Use Deployment as Code
• Go immutable with your infrastructure
• Commit Often, Push once
• F*ck it, ship it! – use feature enables if possible
• Have monitoring and KPIs on everything on your platform
• Tune it!

I was really fun talking about this subject and i have the gut feeling that I am going to have more presentations around this subject in the near future. I will for sure do more presentations this year.

The meetup and notes can be found here:

https://www.meetup.com/Copenhagen-AWS-User-Group/events/260848008/

-All the best!

/Steffen