Padraig Coffey, CEO at Zartis, is joined by Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI, as they discuss the evolution of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) technology.
The Guest – Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI
Rob has spent more than 20 years at the forefront of tech innovation and software startups. During this time, he co-founded 4 companies and served as CTO at 3, including CircleCI, the world’s largest shared continuous integration software and continuous delivery platform. At CircleCI, he has led the company through its Series B through E rounds, and is currently leading a team of 150+ engineers.
The Evolution of CI/CD
Rob walks us through the evolution of CI technology from two main perspectives, both closely interlinked – on one hand the evolution of processes and working methodologies (e.g. the impact of Agile) and on the other – the evolution of tools in this space.
The episode explores:
> What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment?
> What are the advantages of implementing CI/CD approach?
> How did CI technologies and CD approach come about and evolved over the past few decades and who were the key figures behind them?
> Has Covid impacted the way or speed at which companies are implementing CI/CD?
> What does the future hold? The end of on-call?
Episode Preview:
Rob, to kick off, you can tell us a little bit about what CI/CD is?
And then CD, interestingly, often gets referred to, or used as, an abbreviation for two different things – continuous delivery or continuous deployment. Delivery being you’re continually creating deployable artifacts, and continuous deployment being continually actually deploying those into a production environment.
Some articles on this topic we enjoyed:
A Brief History of DevOps, Part III: Automated Testing and Continuous Integration
Martin Fowler – Continuous Integration
You can find The Story of Software podcast on:
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Deezer, & any other podcast platform of your choice.
We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast episopde on CI software technologies and feel free to share any feedback with us: podcast@zartis.com