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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2024-07-04"]
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Date: "2024-07-04"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-07-04
Recorded episode with Elena Konstantinou. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and why most teams are still doing continuous deployment wrong
- Elena walked through a maturity model she developed for deployment pipelines, from basic build automation through canary deployments to full progressive delivery with feature flags and automated rollback
- Her background running platform teams at multiple scale-ups across Europe gave her a broad comparative view — she could point to patterns that succeed across different tech stacks and organizational sizes
- Energetic session with strong opinions; Elena is not afraid to call out industry hype, which makes for compelling listening even if some viewers may disagree
- Key insight: "If your deployment pipeline takes more than 15 minutes, you do not have continuous delivery. You have batch processing with extra steps"
- Good audio overall; slight room reverb on Elena's end but nothing that will require significant post-processing

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Elena and request the maturity model document for show notes
- [ ] Draft show notes with the pipeline maturity levels as a visual
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
