The Software Delivery Notebook
Episodes
Refresher on Continuous Delivery
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thierry de Pauw wrote a super-helpful refresher on Continuous Delivery, based on his experiences of organizations who say “we’re doing it&...
The changing state of Platform Engineering
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on the findings of the most recent two volumes of the State of Platform Engineering report, this episodes looks at the difference between shif...
State of AI vs Human Code Generation
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
CodeRabbit looked at 470 open-source pull requests and produced the State of AI vs Human Code Generation report with their findings. Crucially, AI mak...
Engineering performance and AI impact 2025 Report
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we look at the LeadDev and Honeycomb Engineering Performance report 2025, which is based on 400+ survey responses from engineering leaders. ...
The hard truth about Platform Engineering
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the 2025 Platform Engineering Pulse report from Octopus, we look at what’s happening in practice. Within the Platform Engineering (PE) ...
DORA’s State of AI-Assisted Software Development report
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DORA has published their latest report and it goes deep into AI-Assisted Software development. It covers the extent of adoption, how it moves the need...
Achieving Continuous Delivery with TPF
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episodes look at the white paper Achieving Continuous Delivery With TPF by Bob Walker at Octopus Deploy. TPF is a set of three practices that can...
Westrum’s study of information flow
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Westrum is famous for his classification of organizational culture, but he’s also done great work on hidden events, and information flow. Th...
Unpacking Weinberg’s laws of consulting
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on a list of laws, rules, and principles that span Gerald M. Weinberg’s two books on The Secrets of Consulting. These laws are a helpful a...
Compliance through Continuous Delivery
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the financial industry survey by Octopus and their Compliance through Continuous Delivery report, this episode shows how recent regulations a...
Why software projects fail
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s look at a classic software projects paper published in The Journal of Defense Software Engineering in March 2005. It discusses why softwar...
Dave Farley’s CD report
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Farley knows a thing or two about Continuous Delivery (CD), so his State of Continuous Delivery in 2025 report based on assessments of consultanc...