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What is the purpose of CI/CD

Ryan Arjun
3 min readDec 28, 2024

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As we know that CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery. In the current era of software development technologies, it is a set of practices and tools designed to automate the software development lifecycle, enabling teams to deliver high-quality software quickly, reliably, and with minimal manual intervention.

CI/CD has the most added value if you work on code with multiple developers. You develop your changes and even though you do your best not to make mistakes, combining your changes with those of the others will give unexpected results now and then. The trick is to catch those problems before your end users get impacted by them.

Another true and useful fact is that deploying code automatically means there’s a smaller chance that something goes wrong, so it’s safer to deploy more often, so the number of changes that could cause issues is smaller for every deployment.

📌Without CI/CD, teams face inefficiency, lower quality, and slower delivery. Adopting CI/CD creates a foundation for agile, high-performing software development processes. It enables teams to release software more confidently, ensuring better outcomes for both developers and…

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Ryan Arjun
Ryan Arjun

Written by Ryan Arjun

BI Specialist || Azure || AWS || GCP — SQL|Python|PySpark — Talend, Alteryx, SSIS — PowerBI, Tableau, SSRS

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