Continuous deployment at scale

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Etsy runs continuous deployment that actually ships product not just code: about 20–40 production deploys a day, driven by master-first commits guarded by feature flags (variants and percent rollouts), preflight tests via a local “try” runner, a web green-button deploy to a pre-prod called princess, and a Slack/IRC push-queue. Cleanup uses a weekly cron that finds stale flags. Monitoring (graphite/statsd, Supergraph/Supertop) shows push markers and enables low mean time to recovery; blameless postmortems produce tracked remediation tasks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:53Buongiorno!
3. 2:20principles
4. 2:42enable innovation
5. 3:09optimize for mastery
6. 3:50quick iteration
7. 4:15continuous improvement
8. 6:09tooling
9. 7:03Feature
10. 8:53Experimentation
11. 10:47continuous integration
12. 11:08ready to release
13. 13:41anybody can push
14. 15:38dark changes
15. 16:37config pushes
16. 19:16push train
17. 21:52dashboards
18. 22:33StatsD + Graphite
19. 24:08poka-yoke
20. 24:35culture
21. 25:08assume best intentions
22. 25:19cultivate empathy
23. 26:06failure is an option
24. 26:19failure is an opportunity
25. 27:02blameless post-mortems
26. 27:19+ remediation
27. 29:05mixer
28. 31:2030+ config deploys

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