Jason Adam — A conversation about trunk-based development

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Jason Adam is a software with a non-traditional background in biology, business development, and data analytics. Now he's active as a developer, and on the lookout for proven practices he can introduce to his team. On this episode we talk about Trunk-Based Development, and the related topics of continuous integration and deployment, infrastruture as code, and much more.

In this episode

• How Trunk-based development differs from GitFlow and other branching strategies
• Two flavors of trunk-based development
• How Trunk-based development fits into the larger picture of continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Techniques for working in smaller batches
• How test-driven development enhances trunk-based development
• Using feature flags for smaller batches
• How to keep pull requests small
• Cherry-picking small changes out of a larger pull request
• How Infrastructure-as-Code works with CI and CD

Resources

• Book: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Dave Farley
• Book: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
• Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
• Book: Clean Architecture by Robert Martin

Guest
Jason Adam
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