CD Office Hours Ep.5: Delivering database changes

Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.9: The compliance ratchet

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Steve Fenton is joined by Octopus Deploy founder Paul Stovell to explore the hidden bottleneck in the AI productivity conversation that nobody is talking about: compliance and risk tolerance. Everyone wants code written faster, so they are turning to AI to make it happen. But the constraint […]

CD Office Hours Ep.8: AI efficiency and effectiveness

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss some of the tangled pathways around AI, the search for efficiency and productivity, and the need to re-focus on effectiveness and outcomes. You’ll find out about the beneficiary user versus end user divergence and where asymmetry can cause bad […]

CD Office Hours Ep.7: Modern multi-tenancy

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss modern multi-tenancy and how different it is today than during the SaaS revolution. Multi-tenancy has a single purpose; sharing resources between users to get higher utilization from physical infrastructure by sharing it. Originally that meant time sharing on a […]

CD Office Hours Ep.6: Change approvals

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss the purpose and common pitfalls of software change approvals. They argue that strict, manual change approval processes are often just a reflex to past organizational trauma and an attempt to have “humans on the hook” to blame, rather than […]

CD Office Hours Ep.5: Delivering database changes

While application code deployments have become highly automated and disciplined, database changes often remain manual, “folksy,” and prone to causing messy environment drift. Find out why databases require a uniquely cautious approach due to the severe risks of data loss and the impossibility of simple rollbacks, emphasizing the need to treat database deployments with the […]