Task 5 – advanced technologies

At this point in time, you have a clear understanding of which services you might need, whether you need to make or buy them, and how cloud providers can support you. In this optional step, you can try to improve your typical deployment strategy and increase your speed by addressing the following:

• What happens if you aren’t fast enough, from a technical and business perspective?
• Can feature flagging improve your workflow?
• Do you want to use canary or blue-green deployments and how do you want to deal with them?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 5

Let’s try to address this task with our learnings from Chapters 5, 6, and 7. Now that we have seen how cloud services can help us, it’s time to think about getting faster. As we defined in the beginning and also in our technical strategy, velocity is a crucial factor for the success of our business. For example, a vendor might not be very satisfied...