12 CLOUD AND THE ‘CDs’
Releasing software is too often an art; it should be an engineering discipline.
Jez Humble and David Farley in Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, 2010
An area in which there is a strong congruence between emerging models is between cloud and continuous development, delivery and deployment (CD). These three usages of 'CD' can be defined as:
• Continuous development: Here, developers can work on small, discrete elements of functionality that can be pushed out through continuous delivery mechanisms to users on a regular (or near-constant) basis.
• Continuous delivery: Sometimes used interchangeably with continuous deployment, continuous delivery should be the ...
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