By creating a CI pipeline, we have taken the first step toward being an effective engineering organization. Because our workflow now involves working in individual branches and merging them back to the master branch after going through automated testing and human reviews, we can assume that the code present in the master branch is of high quality and is safe to deploy. We can now focus on the next challenge, which is to release code automatically as new code gets merged into the master branch.
By continuously releasing new code, you drastically accelerate the feedback loop process that DevOps provides. Releasing new code to production at high speed lets you collect real customer metrics, which often leads to exposing new and often unexpected issues. For many companies, deploying new code to production is a challenge. It can be quite worrying, especially if it involves thousands of new commits all going out to production at the same time in a process...