Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (AddisonWesley Signature Series (Fowler))
by Jez Humble
Continuous Delivery reads like a practitioner's manual for making software releases faster and safer, heavy on process recipes, pipeline patterns, and automation practices. Its most useful sections give concrete steps for automating build, test, and deployment flows so teams can ship smaller, more frequent changes with lower risk. The tone is prescriptive and detail-oriented, which helps during implementation but frustrates readers expecting high-level case studies or light narrative. Implementation detail can feel tedious if you're not working on CI/CD right away.
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Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award!Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and timeconsuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and...
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