It Began as a Trickle

Satiated and Ready for a Nap Nita returned to her cube after lunch, already regretting having eaten. Two tacos were probably one and a half too many, but they were delicious. She logged into her laptop again and saw her editor still open: To be continued... Pressing dd to erase her screen, she reviewed her notes: [x] setup a build environment with the correct JDK [x] build and run the application [x] perform a simple smoke test [x] determine the runtime environment (networking, monitoring) [x] determine the runtime orchestrator [x] create a service definition [x] smoke test the service Earlier that day, she had followed the standard steps that she always followed when she'd been given an embryonic bit of software to deploy. First, build the thing to make sure it's even possible. Then work through the basic steps of packaging and runtime configuration. Make sure everything works as best as possible locally before setting out to build any automation. She knew that the feedback loops were