Why Pull Requests Are a Bad Idea • Dave Farley • GOTO 2022

We’re so pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and frequent GOTO Conferences speaker, for a monthly video series featuring ideas about continuous delivery, DevOps, test-driven development, BDD, software engineering and software development in general. Find plenty more from Dave on his @ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT channel. Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. ABSTRACT Pull requests are widely used. Most teams create a pull request somewhere on their route to releasing change. They see them as the only way to conduct code reviews, but they are not. Pull requests were invented to manage large, open-source projects, but working within an organisation with a team is not the same thing as open-source programming. In general, our advice is don’t do pull requests, but why is that, and what should you do instead? In this episode, Dave Farley, author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering explores the idea of pull requests and the issues that they raise. Dave offers several alternatives and discusses the pros and cons of each, ending up with some concrete advice on what you should do instead. CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses https://bit.ly/DFTraining RECOMMENDED BOOKS & LINKS You can grab Dave Farley's new book 'Continuous Delivery Pipelines' here: https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/367RI5o https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #GOTOxDaveFarley #Programming #SoftwareArchitecture #CD #ContinuousIntegration #PullRequests #DevOps #DaveFarley #GOTO #GOTOcon #ContinuousDelivery #Accelerate #Complexity DAVE'S LINKS https://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk https://twitter.com/davefarley77 http://www.davefarley.net Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1