Challenges and Obstacles of Enterprise Continuous Deployment

With Continuous Delivery taking the spot light in the recent years, many companies have embarked on the challenge of creating their own Continuous Delivery Pipeline to help them be more agile and propel changes from developers to production with ease, reliability and efficiency. While the successes of CD are very vivid and encouraging, it is not being talked much about what does it take to actually build such a system and processes around it, the challenges and obstacles that a company, undertaking this effort, has to resolve and overcome.

This talk will be focused precisely on the aspect of what to expect when you decide to undertake the effort of creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, what challenges lie ahead, what obstacles one might have to tackle and what technologies to consider to compliment Gradle in achieving this task. At Orbitz Worldwide we have embarked on building our Continuous Delivery Pipeline around Gradle using Git, Enterprise Jenkins, Artifactory, GLU and virtualization. It has been a very interesting, but also very challenging road, and we would like to share our experiences with the audience in an attempt to show what exactly does it take to do Continuous Deployment!

About Alex Antonov

Alex has joined Orbitz in 2004 and is responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance in the development of foundational technologies, core libraries and APIs for the enterprise-wide use, as well as establishing and maintaining common design principles and standards used within the company and integration of new software development practices within the development community.

Previously Alex was a Lead Engineer on the same team responsible for web application frameworks and developing common practices and additional functionality on top of Spring MVC & Webflow.

Alex is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, with a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. He currently resides in Evanston, IL and when not coding, Alex enjoys playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and traveling.

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