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Shameless Plug: I've recently been involved in writing a book on Continuous Deployment, which covers many of the points Instagram are writing about here (but in greater detail).

I've got ~1,000 printed copies to give away. So if anyone wants one, go here: http://madete.ch/1S3OGvl and follow the link on the left hand side and we'll mail a copy to you.

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Filled out the form. Sending out free physical books seems like a lot though - what's the motivation behind that?

It was originally a content marketing experiment. We thought we'd rather have 100 people receive a free printed copy of the book and love us for this, than a 1000 people receive ebooks and end up in their trash.

The ROI from the 100 trial worked well, so we decided to try and scale it out to more people. TBD whether we'll see a good ROI from 1000 people, but we hope people enjoy it and like us for sending them a free book!

I ordered a copy from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Will you ship it? :)

I was going to order from Nicaragua, but decided to use a U.S. address after all

Hey, I'm currently also writing a book on automating deployments (https://deploybook.com), and if you're interested, I'd like to chat about your experience with writing and publishing this book.

Please drop me a line moritz.lenz@gmail.com. Also, looking forward to read your book :-)

Great, will do + you can get me on rory_at_madetech_com

Filled out the form. Definitely excited to get into a CD environment, rather than the 1-2 deploys/day that I've been exposed to in the past!

CD doesn't have to mean 'push every green build to prod'. It's more about the ability to push new functionality when asked by the business, than the fact of always pushing it by default. You may be doing CD well already, knowing just what you have said.

My preconception is that what you said is exactly right, but the idea that one maybe should push every green build to prod -- and the fact that a lot of big-scale companies are doing that -- is really intriguing.

Oops, I meant CD as in continuous delivery, but that is not what the article is discussing. Sorry! :)

Great service! Just for your information, the "Thanks for signing up!"-message[1] showed up twice when I ordered the book.

[1]"Thanks for signing up! Your book is on its way, you should receive it within a few working days."

Very interesting! I have signed up for a copy. Thank you

Do you ship outside the United States?

We're based in the UK and have shipped plenty overseas so far. I'm sure we'll be able to get something to you, if you're not in too remote a location.

Strange, I'm not from the US, (I'm from Serbia) and it says I can't even buy the book on Amazon (I was hoping for the kindle edition). I did apply for the hard copy though.

Can't seem to find the link on mobile safari, care to share in a reply? (I'm in SF)

Do you ship epub?

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