More and more IT organizations are taking the step to Continuous Delivery instead of thinking in sprints or releases. It’s an important investment, and it opens a world of tangible opportunities. In this talk, we’ll see how the ability to deploy individual features influences the way we work, design applications, and perform as an organisation.

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The Workshop | Public
Continuous Delivery
in the Real World
What the books didn’t tell us

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Kai Schroeder
VP Engineering at The Workshop
Overall Responsibilities:
Software Development – Methodology,
Architecture, Quality, Velocity, Organisational
Design. Strategy and Governance around the
Software Development Lifecycle
Industry Experience:
20+ years experience in Software Development in
Managing and Architectural Roles. 9 years in
Gaming Industry with hands-on experience of
Poker, Casino Products and Unified Platforms.

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Poker
Whether you are an
absolute novice or a
seasoned poker pro, we
believe offer table limits and
tournament buy-ins to suit
all bankrolls and aspirations.
Casino
We specialize in slots and
table games that stand out
for their great design an
usability. Our responsive UX
lets you play across mobile,
tablet, and desktop.
Sports Betting
We develop new and
engaging product features
to simplify the sports betting
experience for the
recreational user.
Web Platform
We offer a whole suite of
tools to help serve users and
manage transactions easily.
We built them all on the
same powerful platform as
our casino products, so
integration is seamless.
Crypto + R&D
Our Inventors, designers
and developers are creating
secure distribution systems
and advanced payment
methods that are not only
innovative, but among the
most secure.

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The Workshop | Public
Continuous Delivery
in the Real World
What the books didn’t tell us

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2016 – 2018 Development of a
new Gaming Platform
03
Continuous Delivery built-in
02
Micro Services, Container
Technology, Kubernetes
The way to Continuous Delivery – Scenario 1

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The way to Continuous Delivery – Scenario 2
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Sport Betting Platform
03
Tight coupling of backend
with the frontend
02
Oracle based Monolith
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Continuous Delivery built-in

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The way to Continuous Delivery – Scenario 3
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Casino Game Development
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Visual testing
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Portfolio of ~30 games
04
Browser compatibility testing

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The way to Continuous Delivery – Scenario 4
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Poker Product
03
From manual to
automated testing
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From “Testing Poker” to targeted
regression tests
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Ruthless scope review

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The Pipeline
Integration
Testing / E2E
Application
Security Scans
Sitespeed
Picasso
(Automated
Visual Testing)
Contract
Testing
OS Patching
Blue-green
Deployments
Standardise the deployment
pipeline offering services:

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Observations – The Goods
KPIs - Software Delivery Performance
• Lead Time
• Change Frequency
• Time to Recover
Incident Numbers
• Incidents / Change down by 95%
• Major Incidents down by 75%
• Minor Incidents down by 10%
• Time to Recover down by 50%
SpeedQuality

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Observations – The Goods
Resurrection of Unit Tests
• Left–shift of quality
• Completeness
Pipeline Maintenance Cost

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Front End Testing Red is the new Green Quantifying Pipeline
maintenance effort
Observations – The Challenges

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Conclusions
Continuous Delivery
creates alignment and
enforces compliance to
countless best practices
around the SDLC
Decision Making
Process, Projects
evolve
What else?

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Q&A