Speaker interview with Angel Rivera

  • Thursday, Jan 2, 2020
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Angel Rivera is a developer advocate at CircleCI (Read more about Angel)
Giving a talk on CI/CD Agility And Controlling Pipeline Sprawl

What is the biggest improvement you’ve seen on engineering teams after they’ve implemented CI/CD?

The biggest improvement I’ve noticed from teams that have implemented CI/CD practices is increased awareness and communication among team members. Teams that have adopted and implemented CI/CD urges individuals to socialize around codebases resulting in a deeper understanding and stronger connection to codebases and optimizes software development processes.

What excites you the most about your talk?

Addressing pipeline management at scale, the issues teams are facing with current CI/CD tooling and sharing ideas on resolving these issues in general

What do you think will be the biggest change in CI/CD over the next 3-5 years?

Autonomous pipelines will be the next evolution in the next five years. Pipelines will have the capability of mitigating failed builds without human intervention. For example, a build step fails due to a failed vulnerability scan in a dependency library in a pipeline. The CI/CD tooling will be able to update the vulnerable library, then automatically test the application using the newly updated libraries. Autonomous Pipelines will provide next level efficiencies in CI/CD and DevOps automation.