Our DevOps journey – Microsoft’s internal transformation story

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Microsoft reduces releases from three years to three weeks by reshaping people, process and product: 40 co‑located scrum feature teams, rotation and a SWAT rotation for deployments; continuous deployment into six deployment rings with safe rollouts, 79,000 unit tests run per pull request and six hundred merges a day; feature flags replace rollbacks; telemetry (about seven terabytes daily) and petabytes of logs enable zero‑downtime upgrades and monitored, incremental rollouts instead of big freezes.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users
3. 39:43Deployment principles No down time Fully automated Joint ownership between engineering and ops Decoupled services clear contracts Feature flags
4. 44:31Feature flags Decouples engineering and marketing Control exposure Granular Controlled via PowerShell Supports early feedback, experimentation Conferences, launches

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