The Guardian publishes around 350 articles of content a day. Hardly 'big data'. We deal with barely 150 million users a month. Facebook (with it's 600 million users on mobile alone), we ain't. But we do have to serve the news, and we do have to serve it fast, accurately, and on time, across multiple platforms and devices.
For a company that's 192 years old, we like to think we're pretty Agile. So what do our development teams care about? What kind of qualities are we optimising for in our software and processes? How do we make sure that when the news is breaking, our software isn't broken? Or if it is, how do we fix it fast?
16. I think somethings awry ... the graph is
implying that there have been about 100
deploys in 17 days.
Michael, Operations Manager
Those graphs don't lie.
Matt, Development Lead