Matt Makai

Developer Evangelist at Twilio

Matt Makai (@mattmakai) is Twilio's Washington, D.C.-based Developer Evangelist experienced in the Python and Java web stacks. Matt previously developed software for large organizations like The Motley Fool, Department of Defense, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Freddie Mac. In 2013, Matt traveled to 30 cities in 5 months for his Coding Across America project to learn from software communities outside the Beltway and apply those ideas to the D.C. tech scene. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University, M.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and M.S. in Management of Information Technology at the University of Virginia.

Deployed in 60 Minutes: Increasing Production Deployments from Six Months to Every Hour
Track: Solutions Track

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Abstract:
Software end users demand to know: why did you tell them a feature was "code complete" but they won't get to use it until it's deployed months later? Why is it so difficult to perform production deployments in most organizations?

This talk will explore why deployments are so difficult and show solutions with case studies for how other organizations cut their production deployment times down from months to every hour.