Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too
@article{Chen2015ContinuousDH,
title={Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too},
author={Lianping Chen},
journal={IEEE Software},
year={2015},
volume={32},
pages={50-54}
}Continuous delivery (CD) has emerged as an auspicious alternative to traditional release engineering, promising to provide the capability to release valuable software continuously to customers. Paddy Power has been implementing CD for the past two years. This article explains why Paddy Power decided to adopt CD, describes the resulting CD capability, and reports the huge benefits and challenges involved. These experiences can provide fellow practitioners with insights for their adoption of CD…
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