Interview with Edward Thomson (Git in VSTS)

11/22/17 • 7 min

In this interview, recorded live from Ignite 2017, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate Damian Brady interviews Senior Program Manager Edward Thomson about Git in Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:19] Source control options in VSTS and TFS
[02:20] Microsoft Engineering's move to VSTS and Git
[03:52] Managing Git at scale - GVFS
[06:05] Accessing a Git repository in VSTS

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In this interview, recorded live from Ignite 2017, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate Damian Brady interviews Senior Program Manager Edward Thomson about Git in Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:19] Source control options in VSTS and TFS
[02:20] Microsoft Engineering's move to VSTS and Git
[03:52] Managing Git at scale - GVFS
[06:05] Accessing a Git repository in VSTS

Blog: Damovisa.me
Follow @damovisa

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Interview with Munil Shah (Safe Deployment)

In this interview, Principal DevOps Manager Donovan Brown interviews Director of Engineering Munil Shah about Safe Deployment of Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:40] Scale Units
[03:54] Safe Deployment Practices
[04:28] Rings
[09:20] Performance Testing
[10:24] Go Big Environment
[12:40] Feature Flags & Stages
[15:45] Preview Flag
[19:25] Testing
[24:29] DB or Binaries who goes first
[27:52] DB Schema Management
[32:35] API Versions
[18:50] Feature Flags!

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Interview with Munil Shah (Safe Deployment Questions Answered)

In this interview, Director of Engineering Munil Shah returns to answer the questions asked about Safe Deployment of Visual Studio Team Services.

[00:32] Deployment Rings
[05:39] RM Deployment Definition
[08:30] Ring 4a
[11:35] Branching / CI
[14:14] Hot Fixes
[16:54] Cherrypicking changes
[17:46] We never delete branches
[20:10] Deployment frequency

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