Welcome to the Potworks Technology Podcast.

My name is Alexei. I'm the head of Technology for Portricks Brazil and I will be one of your hosts this time together with Mike Mason.

Hello Mike.

Hi Alexei, happy to be here. My name is Mike. I'm also one of the regular podcast hosts.

And we're delighted to have Pete Hawkson with us this time. So Pete, would you mind introducing

yourself a little bit to our listeners? Sure. Hello. Hello. My name is Pete. And I'm a

software delivery consultant. So I used to be, I still am a software engineer, and I spent

some time at startups, and then I spent some time at this global consulting company called

Fortworks. And then I went back to startups for a little bit, and now I'm doing independent

consulting.

And a lot of what I do is kind of helping teams get better at delivering software.

So sometimes that's kind of architecture and stuff like that.

But a lot of times it's also kind of around process and how to get stuff into production on a good cadence. So Pete is a good friend of ThoughtWorks, used to work with them very closely, obviously

quite aligned with, I would say ThoughtWorks worldview on things, you know, and the right way to build software.

And today's episode is called Continuous Delivery in the Wild.

And this is, we're going to be talking to Pete about a recent e-book that he's written for

O'Reilly, talking about continuous delivery.

So Pete, why don't you, you know, tell us a little bit about the

premise of this continuous delivery in the wild book that you've written. So I spent, I spend quite

a lot of time talking to people about continuous delivery and hearing kind of thought leaders and stuff like that talking about

continuous delivery. And what I notice is people spend a lot of time talking about kind of

like the cutting edge stuff that like really advanced engineering orgs are doing, which I think is

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