Karthik Rao: Software Deployment Velocity Shifted From Annual Updates to Tens of Thousands
Kartik Rao · a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:49
Karthik Rao explains how microservices and modern developer pipelines have dramatically accelerated software release cycles compared to traditional enterprise development.
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“Instead of doing two or three updates a year, you could be doing thousands or tens of thousands of updates a year. And so, you know, the entire development lifecycle, deployment lifecycle, the entire toolset is evolving to support velocity. So how you design your software, how you build it, how you release it, how you configure it, how you monitor, it's all adapting.”
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