DOES14 - Steve Neely - Rally Software
summary
Rally moves a 10-year Java monolith from eight-week releases to frequent continuous delivery and auto-deploy for new services, claiming production deploys without weekend drama. Key moves: implement feature toggles to decouple deploy from release, speed and parallelize tests with a parallel Selenium grid and worker threads (avoiding a 9+ hour test bottleneck), and build an auth microservice called Zul with dark‑deploy teeing that runs in prod for a year validating parity. Pipeline automation uses Jenkins, Flowdock bots, Graphite and Splunk and proves smaller, safer batches and fewer emergency wakeups.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40Ghostbusters
- 3:00Continuous Delivery
- 7:27The Equestrian Adventure
- 10:25Automation
- 11:42Thought games
- 17:09Timing
- 22:50The Gatekeeper
- 26:48The Big Secret
- 27:58Final Thoughts
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