April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
35 pages
44m
English
Content preview from Continuous Delivery in the Wild
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Software companies are under constant pressure to deliver features to their users faster, while simultaneously maintaining (or improving) the quality of those features. This may seem like an impossible task, but many organizations have discovered that it is in fact achievable, using the practices of Continuous Delivery.
What is Continuous Delivery?
Continuous Delivery is a set of technical practices that allow delivery teams to radically accelerate the pace at which they deliver value to their users. The core tenet of Continuous Delivery is keeping your codebase in a state where it can be shipped to production at any time. By working in this way, you can quicken the tempo of production changes, going from infrequent, big, and risky deployments to deployments that are frequent, small, and safe.
Note
The book Accelerate, by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, uses rigorous scientific methods to confirm many of the benefits of Continuous Delivery, based on several years of the State Of Devops Survey. The book shows that organizations practicing Continuous Delivery have better software delivery performance, which in turn drives greater organizational performance. In other words, Continuous Delivery leads to better organizational outcomes.
Continuous Delivery in the Real World
A lot of the discussion around Continuous Delivery focuses on the cutting-edge practices advancing the state of the art. In this report, we will instead look at how a variety ...
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