About this episode

In this episode, Gergely Orosz interviews Robert Erez about safe and efficient software deployment practices at scale.

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. — Robert Erez is a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, and a longtime expert in CI/CD, deployment systems, and software delivery. Rob and I were also once colleagues on the Skype web team, working on large-scale deployments and release processes. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer , I sit down with Rob to discuss how teams deploy software safely and efficiently at scale. We cover Kubernetes, GitOps, platform engineering, progressive delivery, feature flags, cloud development environments, and the growing role of AI in CI/CD workflows. We also get into the tradeoffs in different deployment approaches, why self-hosted software still matters for some organizations, and the recent evolution of software delivery practices. — Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:09 Canary deployments at Skype 05:01 Joining at Octopus Deploy 06:15 Continuous deployment 10:26…

People in this episode

Host: Gergely Orosz

Guest: Robert Erez

Topics covered

• CI/CD
• software delivery
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• platform engineering
• progressive delivery
• AI in workflows

Keywords

• CI/CD
• deployment systems
• software delivery
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• feature flags
• AI

Sponsors

Antithesis, WorkOS, turbopuffer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Octopus Deploy, Skype

Products: Antithesis, WorkOS, turbopuffer, Kubernetes, GitOps, AI, feature flags, cloud development environments

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