Past, Present and Future: The Evolution of CI/CD

It’s been more than a decade since the first continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was rolled out. Today, those platforms are the foundation for the DevOps workflows that transformed the way applications are built and deployed.

However, it has also become apparent that legacy CI/CD platforms still require a lot of manual effort to maintain, especially when compared to more modern instances of these platforms that sharply reduce the level of toil DevOps teams experience. While in the past, that toil was a necessary price to pay for automating and streamlining software development and delivery, today's developers don't have the time to spare on management and maintenance. Thankfully, the next generation of CI/CD platforms have evolved to remove much of this toil, simplifying the management of DevOps workflows and, just as importantly, improving the developer experience.

In this Techstrong Learning Experience, you'll learn how CI/CD platforms have evolved and what new innovations they introduce into the software development life cycle. You'll also learn how these next-generation tools can help ease management and monitoring pressure, remove toil, accelerate development and delivery and improve developer experience.

You'll learn:

How today's CI/CD platforms differ from legacy tools
How modern CI/CD tools can remove toil
CI/CD's role in accelerating the SDLC
How these tools can improve developer experience

Peter McKee

Head of Developer Relations and Community - Sonar

Peter McKee is the Head of Developer Relations and Community at Sonar, where he leads a team of developer advocates in reaching and educating developers across their preferred forums to help them write better, more secure code. Peter is also the maintainer of the open source project Ronin.js and for over 25 years has built his career developing full-stack applications as well as leading and mentoring developer teams. Prior to Sonar, Peter was the Director of Developer Advocacy at JFrog and before that, he held multiple roles at Docker including Head of Developer Relations. When not building things with software, he spends his time with his wife and seven kids in beautiful Austin, TX.

Damith Karunaratne

Group Product Manager, Developer Experience

Damith and his team manage Google Cloud’s continuous integration and source control management products, and third-party DevOps integrations. Damith has been working with Google Cloud for over ~3.5 years and has led software supply chain security efforts prior to leading third-party DevOps integrations. Before joining Google, Damith spent over a decade helping companies of all shapes and sizes solve complex software challenges, and played a leadership role at a systems integrator overseeing their DevOps professional service business unit.

Bradley Rydzewski

Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, Harness

Brad Rydzewski is a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Harness, where he leads the Continuous Integration (CI) and Source Code Management (SCM) product teams. Brad is also the creator of popular open source CI project, Drone (also known as Gitness). Brad has over a decade of experience in the DevOps space as an engineer, product manager, and CEO.

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