Scaling Communication with Continuous Integration
Explore how Etsy scales communication through Continuous Integration in this 45-minute conference talk from PHP UK Conference 2012. Discover how the company maintains rapid deployment cycles despite team growth, deploying new features and bug fixes to production in just 20 minutes. Learn about evolving communication patterns, including explicit IRC communication and the role of Continuous Integration environments. Gain insights into how team size, role composition, motivation, culture, and available tools impact communication patterns and development throughput. Presented by LB Denker, an experienced developer with a background in Computational Mathematics and Computer Science, who now focuses on growing Etsy's development culture and continuous deployment process as their Anthropologist of Developer Operations.