Automation story: GraphQL schema deployment

Building a new automation to give power to my team At Atomist, we supply a GraphQL endpoint to reveal links between commits, builds, deploys, and people. Internally, we also use GraphQL to access data in Neo4J. To do that, we need to deploy a schema definition (IDL) to the Neo4j GraphQL extension. Software evolves from simple … Read moreAutomation story: GraphQL schema deployment

Folding Tradeoff Space

automation changes the rules we play by Fast v Safe Tradeoffs are a fact of life. Choose between safety and speed, stability and flexibility. More of one sacrifices the other. fast or safe, we are somewhere on that spectrum I remember a time when this described our decisions about software deployments. Deployments caused problems, so we did fewer … Read moreFolding Tradeoff Space