Programming Quote by Gene Kim
““We cannot achieve deployments on demand if each of our production code deployments take weeks or months to perform (i.e., each deployment requires 1,300 manual, error-prone steps involving up to three hundred engineers). The countermeasure is to automate our deployments as much as possible, with the goal of being completely automated so they can be done self-service by any developer.””
About This Quote
Source Book: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, 2013
Long, manual, error‑prone deployments hinder speed; automation enables rapid, self‑service releases.
In simple terms: Automation speeds up deployments.
Key Takeaway
Automate to reduce manual steps.
Themes
software development
automation
efficiency
Mood
pragmatic
determined
Type
practical
inspirational
When to use this quote
- IT operations
- software releases
- team collaboration
Key Concepts
continuous delivery
DevOps
process improvement
Questions to Reflect On
- What steps can you automate now?
- How will you handle resistance to change?
A Different Perspective
Automation requires upfront investment and cultural change.
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