The Irrational Fear of Deployments

The anxiety of deployments is real. Let's take a stab at understanding the human emotions related to deployment and learn best practices to minimize the fear.

Ankit Jain

Ankit Jain is a Co Founder and CEO of Aviator, an AI-powereddeveloper workflow automation platform that automates ownership, code reviews, merges and deploys. He also leads The Hangar, a community of senior DevOps and senior software engineers focused on developer experience, and Xoogler, the ex-Google alumni network. Previously, he led engineering teams at Sunshine, Homejoy, and Shippo, and was also an engineer at Google and Adobe.

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