Principal Consultant Chris Read, ThoughtWorks

Chris Read is a Principal Consultant and Infrastructure Specialist at ThoughtWorks Inc., where he helps clients design and impliment their production infrastructure, and make the process of deploying their software as painless as possible. He is one of the creators of Buildix: an integrated development environment that helps projects get started quickly.

Before joining ThoughtWorks Chris has worked as a System Administrator, Network Administrator and a Developer. Specializing in Unix environments, he uses his experience from both sides of the wall to help administrators and developers realize they're both playing for the same team.

Presentation: "Continuous Integration"

Track: Build

Time: Monday 10:30 - 11:20

Location: Rytmisk Sal

Abstract: It's been 8 years since Martin Fowler published his paper on Continuous Integration. I'll be looking at the core practices described in the original paper and how people are applying these practices to projects today. I'll also be looking at how some of the language used in that paper has evolved. For example, 8 years ago Integration meant getting the code in a single project running together, but these days it's come to mean getting many projects integrating with each other. Finally, I'll be touching on emerging trends as new vendors of CI products have entered the market in the past few years.