December 18, 2019

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There can be only one (environment): Production

There can be only one (environment): Production

Paul McCallick discusses how and why Nordstrom has moved to an only-production viewpoint, saving countless engineering cycles and putting effort where it matters.

Talk Title There can be only one (environment): Production
Speakers Paul McCallick (Nordstrom)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Building and maintaining complex distributed systems
Location San Jose, California
Date June 12-14, 2018
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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Teams often waste effort on such useless things as integration tests and maintaining multiple nonproduction environments. Paul McCallick discusses how and why Nordstrom has moved to an only-production viewpoint, saving countless engineering cycles and putting effort where it matters. Along the way, Paul shares tips for testing in production, examples from real-world scenarios, and lessons learned.

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