Here are the slides from the presentation. They did evolve a bit over the course of the tech talks (and hopefully improve).

The presentation also stimulated some good side chatter on twitter. In general, zero-downtime database deployment, continuous monitoring and WAGMI seemed to be popular topics. Thanks to everyone who made it out and contributed. Your feedback has been very helpful in refining the presentation.

Also, a big thanks to Naresh and Amit for organizing the event and ensuring that we were well taken care of.

I am really looking forward to returning to India for this trip and catching up with friends and former colleagues there. I will be in Mumbai on Wednesday and Thursday, Hyderabad on Friday, and Bangalore on Saturday through Monday. So if you are around and want to head out for maharashtrian food or chaat, MTR or kamat, or whatever local delicacies they have in Hyderabad, please let me know. Also, a big thanks to my friend Naresh Jain for organizing the whole thing.

My intention with the presentation was to lay out the basis for an argument that would be subsequently debated. This proved to be more challenging than my last presentation on frequent releases which more of an experience report. It’s difficult to clearly convey the layers of a logical argument through a presentation. I’m impressed by how lawyers manage to do it.

One of the things that I asked attendees to do was to list the top three things that are preventing them from releasing software every week. I’ve compiled their responses in the chart below:

The results are hardly scientific, but I was heartened to see substantial overlap between the concerns that I addressed in the presentation and those identified by the audience. It turned out quite a large contingent of the audience are rich client developers, which brings its own shared of deployment headaches. Many are also working in regulated industries that require their software to be submitted to third party certification agencies for review. To those that attended the session, thanks for participating and for sharing your concerns with me.

• Creating a weekly release process
• Zero down-time deployment
• Continuous Monitoring
• 5 whys
• Automated deployment

As I haven’t been doing .NET development in over a year, I feel like a bit of an impostor at the conference. However, I think that the ideas and experiences of short release cycles transcend technology. I also think that there’s a lot that the Java and .NET communities can learn from each other.

Here are the slides:

• Database Migration in .NET (Sample Code)
• Recommended CI Practices
• Operations Database: Bridging the Gap between Development and Production

Unfortunately I ended up attending relatively few of the sessions as I was pretty busy preparing the materials for my presentations. But what I did see was quite good. I particularly liked Derek Hatcher’s Leveraging the Amazon Platform (EC2 and S3) and Greg Young’s DDDD, Unshackle Your Domain.

What I enjoyed most about the conference was getting to know and learn from some of the experts in a new technology circle. I missed last year’s DevTeach in Vancouver as I was in China at the time but I was glad to have made it out this one.

• Automated Database Evolution and Deployment
• Recommended practices for Continuous Integration
• Home-grown Production System Monitoring and Report

Let me know if you’re planning to attend the event and if there’s anything in particular that you would like to see covered in this event.