How does the

BBC deliver

better software

faster?Chris Northwood

Principal Software Engineer

BBC Future Media

CC-BY Salford University

Continuous

Delivery

• Deploying code to live automatically

• Using a Continuous Delivery tool

Continuous

Delivery

• Deploying code to live automatically

• Using a Continuous Delivery tool

Continuous

Delivery

• Removing bottlenecks to release

• Empower teams

• Fast feedback, rapid iterations

FTP, HTML and Perl scripts

REST, SOA, continuous integration

Modern web development at last!

Continuous

Delivery at the BBC

• Move control from central “Online

Technologies Group” to individual

teams

• Move to devops support model

• Move to cloud infrastructure

• Boring things like budgets changed too

Our Principles

• Automate all the things

• Zero defect backlog

• Only blocker bugs stop the release

pipeline

Where next?

• BBC Academy

• BBC Internet Blog

• Work with us?

Any questions?