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The Agile Developer's Handbook
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The Agile Developer's Handbook

by Paul Flewelling
February 2018
Beginner
398 pages
11h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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The DevOps culture

Continuous Integration (CI), Delivery, and Deployment tackle two problems that we traditionally leave until the end of our software life cycle: integration of code and strategies for deployment.

We've learned that doing something in large chunks, is very risky, especially in a complex software environment. Waiting until the end of your software development process to work out how to combine different parts of the system and deploy them leaves a critical feedback loop open for too long.

Work done during the integration and deployment phase will often include changes to how our software is built. Leaving it until the last moment to receive this feedback will either be costly or will mean it's ignored.

Modern software teams ...

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