A Presentation I delivered at the Auckland Continuous Deliver meetup about the journey taken at Xero to build fully automated CI/CD pipelines.

1. Xero’s story of increased agility
Shifting mindsets
To shipping code
Mark Watkin

2. Autonomy Culture Practices
Key Changes:

3. Setting the scene

4. Replatforming to the cloud
Cloud
Dedicated
Servers

5. The structure of the code

6. Release Complexity

7. Autonomy

8. Redefining product boundaries

9. Product Manager
Product Group
support:
Architect Agile Coach Design
Embedded
Dev/Ops
Product Owner
QA Testers
Developers (Front & Back End)
acting Agile Facilitator

10. Monolith => Microservices

11. Culture

12. The innovation budget
Our technical road map
Wishlist Agreed items Under evaluation Adopted Dropped

13. Experimental culture
Vision
Obstacle ObstacleObstacle

14. Knowledge sharing

15. Practices

16. Continuous integration
Production

17. Rethinking testing to work
with microservices
Unit Under
Test
Test Client
Mock
Provider
Mock
Provider
Mock
Provider
Entire system
Test Client

18. Monitoring

19. Graceful degradation

20. Completing the pipeline Pre-production
Production