I’m on the train to SQL Relay Nottingham where I’m giving a session this afternoon. This year, due to scheduling, I’m only able to attend one of the days but I’m nostalgic for last year when I joined the crew for most of Relay. I know from experience and from my friends on the crew quite how big a job…
Speaking
Critiquing myself: My SQL Cambs user group talk
I love to learn and I love to improve. It strikes me that this is one of the key principles behind the drive towards the iterative, lean, agile, [other buzzwords], frequent releases that are symptomatic of continuous delivery. People want to try something, get feedback, iterate, get more feedback, improve, slay the dragon, iterate, get the girl (or guy), iterate,…
Slides: Building an automated database deployment pipeline
Last night I did something new – I was invited to talk at the PASS London SQL Server user group. I presented a talk about database continuous delivery. It was my first official speaker gig. A few people asked me to publish the slides so here they are: Building an automated database deployment pipeline from Red Gate Software For the…
The continuous delivery panel discussion from Pipeline
Last month I wrote about how to sell continuous delivery to people who aren’t bought into the ideas of automation and frequent releases. It was inspired by the panel discussion at Pipeline which I took part in. The Pipeline crew have now posted a recording of the panel discussion on vimeo. If you would like to see the whole discussion (30…