Continuous Deploymentin an SEC-Regulated Environment<br
/>Pascal-Louis Perez<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

Quick Facts about Wealthfront<br />“
Democratizing access to outstanding investment managers. ”<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

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Quick Facts about Wealthfront<br />Assets
Managed by Mutual Funds in the US<br />$11,000,000,000,000<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

Buzz around Wealthfront<br />10 Most
Innovative Companies in Finance FastCompany<br />Founder named Best Tech Entrepreneur 2011BusinessWeek<br />NASDAQ bell ringing ceremony<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

Managing over $200,000,000*<br />Processing over
$2,000,000/day<br />Highly regulated<br />By the SEC, as a Registered Investment Advisor<br />Member SIPC<br />We’re a technology company<br />No Ops, no QA team<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />Quick Facts about Wealthfront<br />* ~ $35 AUM, $165 AUA<br />

Ship to PROD 30+/day<br />#sllconf
/ @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

But why ship so often?<br
/>Fallacy: our product changes 30 times a day.<br />Risk reduction<br />Product changes just-in-time<br />Great culture<br />Make everybody care about production<br />Everybody owns quality<br />No code thrown over a wall<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

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Bucket?<br />Hose?<br />Bucket?<br />#sllconf /
@pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

Timeline<br />QA<br />Stage<br />Release<br />Fix
P1 Bugs<br />Development<br />Cut a Release<br />Integrate Patches<br />2-8 Weeks<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

Timeline, Revisited<br />Deployment<br />Fix P1
Bugs<br />Stage<br />QA<br />Release<br />or Testing<br />Development<br />Cut a Release<br />Integrate Patches<br />Monitoring<br />Experiments<br />5-10 Minutes<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />

The 5 Essentials<br />#sllconf /
@pascallouis / @wltheng<br />Culture<br />Continuous Deployment<br />Test Driven<br />Development<br />Immune System<br />Continuous Integration<br />

Contact & More Reading<br />Pascal-Louis
Perezpascal@wealthfront.com<br />Culture is Keyhttp://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/02/culture-is-key.html<br />Deployment Managerhttp://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/05/deployment-infrastructure-for.html<br />#sllconf / @pascallouis / @wltheng<br />