Release Early and Release Often: Reducing deployment friction

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Engine Yard runs the AppCloud repo through an automated pipeline that enforces green builds before merge and deploys merged master to staging and production with one command. The team builds an internal CI called Ensemble backed by a job runner Mason and a chat-controlled bot iBot. Test suite sharding cuts CI to ~12–20 minutes, and the org averages 44 deploys in a month, roughly 20 per weekday and about 1–2 production deploys daily, enabling near continuous deployment with zero downtime for most migrations.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:21Reducing deployment friction
3. 2:23Starting a ticket
4. 4:33Commits
5. 6:11Test Drive
6. 9:07Bots Channel
7. 11:44Notifications
8. 13:00Continuous Integration
9. 14:27CI System
10. 15:13Merging
11. 15:47Edge
12. 17:10Deploys
13. 17:22Production
14. 17:48Automation
15. 18:01Forcible
16. 18:37Version field
17. 18:49Continuous deployment
18. 19:48Race condition
19. 20:34Notification
20. 20:50New Relic
21. 21:02Emails
22. 21:42Mason
23. 22:22Deployment process
24. 22:43Unicorn
25. 23:39Bundler
26. 24:12Migrations
27. 24:47Add a column
28. 25:08Deploy again
29. 25:21Run migrations
30. 25:47More examples
31. 27:59Work in progress
32. 29:51About Engine Yard

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