Let’s start with some basics of software development. It still seems no matter what methodology of software development lifecycle that is followed it includes some level of definition, development, QA, UAT, and Production Release. Somewhere in the process, there is a merge of multiple items into a release. This still means your release to production could be monolithic.
The mighty big players like Google, Facebook, and Netflix (click any of them to see their development process) have revolutionized the concept of Continous Integration (CI) and Continous Deployment (CD).
I want to question the future of CI/CD, instead of consolidating a release, why not release a single item into production, validate over a defined period of time and push the next release. This entire process would happen automatically based on a queue (FIFO) system.
Taking it to the world of corporate IT and SaaS Platforms. I’m really thinking about software like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or Oracle’s NetSuite. I would want the SaaS platform to provide me this FIFO system to load my user code updates. The system would push and update the existing code, while it continues to handle the requests and the users wouldn’t see discrepancies. Some validation would happen, the code would activate and a timer would start on the next release. If validation failed the code could be rolled back automatically or manually.
Could this be a reality?
Let’s start with some basics of software development. It still seems no matter what methodology of software development lifecycle that is followed it includes some level of definition, development, QA, UAT, and Production Release. Somewhere in the process, there is a merge of multiple items into a release. This still means your release to production could be monolithic.
The mighty big players like Google, Facebook, and Netflix (click any of them to see their development process) have revolutionized the concept of Continous Integration (CI) and Continous Deployment (CD).
I want to question the future of CI/CD, instead of consolidating a release, why not release a single item into production, validate over a defined period of time and push the next release. This entire process would happen automatically based on a queue (FIFO) system.
Taking it to the world of corporate IT and SaaS Platforms. I’m really thinking about software like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or Oracle’s NetSuite. I would want the SaaS platform to provide me this FIFO system to load my user code updates. The system would push and update the existing code, while it continues to handle the requests and the users wouldn’t see discrepancies. Some validation would happen, the code would activate and a timer would start on the next release. If validation failed the code could be rolled back automatically or manually.
Could this be a reality?
