What is Continuous Delivery? Continuous Delivery is the ability to get changes of all types—including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments—into production, or into the hands …

A key goal of continuous delivery is to change the economics of the software delivery process to make it economically viable to work in small batches so we can obtain the many benefits of this approach.

Continuous delivery rests on three foundations: comprehensive configuration management, continuous integration, and continuous testing. In this section, you can read an overview of each of these …

In this talk, Jez will present the architectural principles and patterns that enable continuous delivery at internet scale, and discuss how to incrementally evolve existing systems in order to deploy them.

The key pattern introduced in continuous delivery is the deployment pipeline. This pattern emerged from several ThoughtWorks projects where we were struggling with complex, fragile, painful manual …

The use of continuous delivery practices including version control, continuous integration, and test automation predicts higher IT performance. Culture is measurable and predicts job satisfaction and …

Nov 28, 2010 · Continuous delivery enables a low-ceremony change management process by ensuring that the first (and riskiest) release is done long before users are given access to the system.

In this section you can read about the two biggest impediments to continuous delivery: enterprise architecture, and organizational culture. You can also see a set of patterns that have been …

Continuous improvement—the art and science of making problem-solving habitual—is the essence of growing a high performance culture. Mike Rother, another leader of the Lean movement, provides a …

The benefits of continuous integration are very significant— research shows that it leads to higher levels of throughput, more stable systems, and higher quality software. However the practice is still …