Continuous Delivery shows how to design automated pipelines that let teams ship reliable software quickly, turning deployment into a routine, low-risk activity.
Continuous Delivery argues that the biggest competitive advantage comes from making releases predictable and low-risk. The book walks you through building a pipeline that automates building, testing, and deploying code so that every change can be released at any time with confidence. It explains the cultural and architectural shifts required, from trunk-based development to comprehensive automated testing, to turn releases from a crisis into a daily routine.
Technical leaders learn concrete practices for reducing batch size, keeping the codebase releasable, and feeding fast feedback into the development loop. The authors break down the economics of risk reduction, showing how a disciplined deployment pipeline cuts downtime, limits rollback pain, and frees engineers to focus on delivering value instead of firefighting release failures.
The book also tackles common obstacles: legacy systems, manual hand-offs, and siloed responsibilities. It provides a roadmap for incrementally introducing automation, measuring progress, and aligning teams around a shared definition of "done." By the end, leaders have a clear blueprint for scaling continuous delivery across multiple services and teams while maintaining quality and speed.
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