Christie Wilson

Christie Wilson is a software engineer. She is a frequent speaker on CI/CD and related topics at conferences like Kubecon, OSCON, QCon, PyCon and more. Christie started her career in mobile web application development, working on backend services for AAA games where she wrote features that wouldn’t be used until the big launch, when everyone would use them at once. To enable that, she built systems for load and system testing.

Leveraging the experience she gained at these previous companies dealing with complex deployment environments, high criticality systems, and bursty traffic patterns, she moved on to work at Google where she built internal productivity tooling for AppEngine, bootstrapped Knative, and created Tekton, a cloud native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes (currently contributed to by 65+ companies).

books & videos by Christie Wilson

Get a Good Signal Out of Flakey Tests
  • Course duration: 44m
Included with a Manning Online subscription

Christie Wilson debunks common misconceptions around what delivers the signal and noise in test suites and shows how to deal effectively with flaky tests.

Building a Better Bug Trap with GitHub Actions
  • Course duration: 39m
Included with a Manning Online subscription

Use GitHub actions to explore the lifecycle of a change, discover all the places where bugs can squirm their way in, and learn the best times to run your pipelines for the most effective bug-catching.

Grokking Continuous Delivery
  • September 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298257
  • 424 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / DevOps / Continuous Integration and Deployment

Grokking Continuous Delivery is a friendly guide to setting up and working with a continuous delivery pipeline. Each chapter takes on a different scenario you’ll face when setting up a CD system, with real-world examples like automated scaling and testing legacy applications. Taking a tool-agnostic approach, author Christie Wilson guides you each step of the way with illustrations, crystal-clear explanations, and practical exercises to lock in what you’re learning.