What are you hoping to learn from Release It!? What are you hoping to get out of the book club?
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. Based on the title, I thought it would be about Continuous Delivery, deployment strategies, etc. Maybe it will touch on those topics, but it seems to be much more focused on the design of robust software in production. So now I am hoping that this book will help me espouse these principles of robustness in my own work and throughout my company. Similarly, for the book club I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts and experiences on the content of the book to see how it could be applied in different contexts, and hopefully receive some inspiration for applying it in my context.
Just read the first chapter and even though I am not an architect, my mindset is of the ivory tower architect mentioned in the first chapter, I hope to move my mindset more towards the pragmatic architect as I read through the rest of the book.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your current mindset and goals for changing that. I’ve definitely experience myself a tendency towards thinking more about the structure of code and modularity rather than thinking about the code actually running and operating it in production. I think there’s definitely a balance there but as a developer it can be all too easy to overindex on development and maintenance rather than operations and availability. Is that what you mean?