Software Delivery from First Principles

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Argues software delivery is closer to industrial engineering than coding, claims reproducible builds (DAGs, hashes, not mtimes) cut wasted work but hit diminishing returns, and treats artifacts + repositories as the reliable unit of shipment that lets promotion and signing work. Mentions make, just/task, cmake, cargo, Go toolchain, Bazel/Pants/Nix/NX, tar and even Excel as examples. Emphasizes reproducible builds, artifact repositories, and gates as AND checks plus timely feedback and observability (canaries, smoke tests).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03Metaphors in software
3. 6:16Software delivery as engineering
4. 7:19Builds as blueprints
5. 15:13Pipelines as flow systems
6. 21:27Feedback loops in pipelines
7. 24:44Summary

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