SLL Conf - Continuous Deployment

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Continuous Deploymentin an SEC-Regulated Environment

Pascal-Louis Perez


“ Democratizing access to outstanding investment managers. ”

Quick Facts about Wealthfront


$11,000,000,000,000

Assets Managed by Mutual Funds in the US



Buzz around Wealthfront

• 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance FastCompany

• Founder named Best Tech Entrepreneur 2011BusinessWeek

• NASDAQ bell ringing ceremony


• Managing over $200,000,000*• Processing over $2,000,000/day• Highly regulated– By the SEC, as a Registered Investment Advisor– Member SIPC

• We’re a technology company• No Ops, no QA team

* ~ $35 AUM, $165 AUA



Ship to PROD 30+/day

M T W T F M T W T F0

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But why ship so often?

• Fallacy: our product changes 30 times a day.

• Risk reduction• Product changes just-in-time• Great culture– Make everybody care about production– Everybody owns quality– No code thrown over a wall

Bucket?

Bucket? Hose?



Timeline

Development

Cut a Release

QAStage Release

Integrate Patches

Fix P1 Bugs

2-8 Weeks


Integrate Patches

Fix P1 Bugs

Cut a Release

Stage

Timeline, Revisited

5-10 Minutes

Experiments Monitoring

Development QA Release

Deployment

or Testing


The 5 Essentials

Continuous Deployment

Immune System

Continuous Integration

Test DrivenDevelopment

Culture


Contact & More Reading

• Pascal-Louis [email protected]

• Culture is Keyhttp://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/02/culture-is-key.html

• Deployment Managerhttp://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/05/deployment-infrastructure-for.html

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