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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

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If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Which is a nice story.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

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But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. First of all, why split-test?

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. This has led to exponential growth.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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