Things that depend on things

It’s nice to see the IT industry moving in a positive direction, maturing, and building upon earlier good practices. I’ve been reading recently about microservices, and I notice how previous practices enable microservices (which I think is a good thing, by the way).

For example:

1. Microservices depends on fully automated deployment (eg. continuous deployment?). http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
2. Continuous deployment depends on Continuous Integration. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/death-continuous-integration
3. Continuous Integration depends on automated testing.
4. Automated testing depends on…? I’m not sure, before my time!

I’m sure this is grossly over-simplified, but its nice to see how good practices lead to better practices.