in a nutshell: gmail went down for 18 minutes because of continuous deployment[citation needed], which they explain a bit of the rationale for. Then they come

in a nutshell: gmail went down for 18 minutes because of continuous deployment[citation needed], which they explain a bit of the rationale for. Then they come back to the headline, basically saying that as more companies do continuous deployment, we might see more breakages, though probably briefer. Not the most focused article, but kind of cool that they wrote about such a thing. Though the headline feels like pure linkbait. They also missed my personal favorite attribute of continuous deployment: isolated problems. If you deploy 10 features and something breaks, unless they're completely orthogonal you now have more than one place to look/person to ask/team to deal with. If you deploy one and it breaks, you know where the problem lies.