Continuous Delivery in Databases | October 21 | 3pm - 4pm BST, 5pm - 6pm UTC
Continuous Delivery is an established practice known to drive agility in business and lower time to market of value. However, oftentimes, this practice is only applied to applications and not the databases these applications own and rely on. This leads to inconsistent change management which can increase time to market and also introduce resilience and business continuity risks.
Pramod Sadalage and Scott Ambler are industry experts in evolutionary database design and refactoring databases. During this webinar, they will introduce CD from the perspective of managing database turnovers with high confidence and low friction. This talk will demonstrate that the standard XP practices are relevant and useful not just for application development and delivery but also in database development and delivery.
Meet the speakers
Pramod Sadalage, Director, Thoughtworks
At Thoughtworks, Pramod enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. He works with clients with particularly challenging data needs, which require new technologies and techniques. In the early 2000s, he developed techniques to allow relational databases to be designed in an evolutionary manner based on version-controlled schema migrations. He is a contributing author for Building Evolutionary Architectures - Support Constant Change, co-author of Refactoring Databases, co-author of NoSQL Distilled, author of Recipes for Continuous Database Integration and continues to speak and write about the insights he garners.
Scott Ambler, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile, Project Management Institute
Scott is the co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA), which was acquired by Project Management Institute in August 2019. He is the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methods. He has co-authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, and The Elements of UML 2.0 Style.
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Brief summary
Pramod Sadalage co-authored the book Refactoring Databases 15 years ago. The concepts remain hugely relevant today for those exploring microservices. We caught up with Pramod and Martin Fowler to hear about the genesis of the book and explore how the principles of refactoring work in a world of NoSQL databases.
Please note: owing to a technical issue, the sound quality for one of our speakers is not ideal. We hope this doesn't detract from your enjoyment of this episode.