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Continuous Integration Practices

Processes that run often will have a tendency to take on efficient shapes. Let them! If they don’t: look for the systemic problems counteracting / preventing it. Good Continuous Integration Practices are:

  1. Integrate at high frequency
    • Rarely used processes are even rarer efficient or safe; more often they are manual, associated with fear and poorly understood
    • High frequency integration - as a necessary precondition for High Frequency Deployment - enforces quality of all related Automation Pipelines (testing, build, then deploy, …)
  2. Avoid code conflicts, a form of Technical Debt
    • Having per-developer / per-task branches does not work in highly collaborative environments; code conflicts arise as a function of: <concurrent branches> * <branch lifetime>
    • Using Trunk Based Workflow minimizes code conflicts; there are no branches, there is little to no merge effort
  3. Give fast feedback
    • Fast Feedback Loops performance - that is time to feedback, e.g. time from commit, to build, to test - is a significant factor on developer performance

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