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#214 - Beyond CI/CD: Continuous Deployment Explained - Valentina Servile

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Apr 28, 2025
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ANECDOTE

Valentina's Agile Career Start

  • Valentina began her career in a small agile consultancy with an intensive three-month study onboarding.
  • This thorough early training deeply shaped her Agile beliefs and contributed to her writing a book on Continuous Deployment.
INSIGHT

CI, CD, and Continuous Deployment Explained

  • Continuous integration focuses on frequent code integration and testing to maintain a stable build.
  • Continuous delivery extends this by ensuring changes are always deployable; continuous deployment automates deployments to production with no manual gates.
ADVICE

Deploy More Often, Reduce Pain

  • Deploying to production is the most painful yet critical stage, so do it automatically and frequently to reduce pain.
  • Smaller batches reduce integration and deployment pain, making releases safer and smoother over time.
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