Continuous Integration

Increased Development Velocity - By applying continuous integration, organizations can increase development velocity because developers can isolate parts of their code to efficiently find bugs in their software projects and roll out new features to customers without creating friction in the experience. Developers can integrate unfinished features into the master branch behind feature flags without risking instability.

Additionally, developers can work without having to worry about detangling messy merge conflicts. By using feature flags or feature toggles, features that are in-progress can be pushed into a shared branch without blocking release from that branch.

Better Product Quality - When you check in code more frequently, you improve product quality because you’re running tests against that code multiple times a day and you’re not waiting for a giant build to pile up before attempting to integrate with everyone else’s work. The ability to control portions of code allows developers to focus on the quality of the code and ship faster and more confidently.

Strong Code Foundation - When practicing continuous integration, teams have complete control and visibility over what’s being introduced into the codebase and can easily triage if a deployment has caused an issue.

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery (CD) is the software development process of getting code changes into production quickly, safely and with higher quality usually using tools to automate the deploys. Engineering teams make changes to their software in short cycles, so that it can be tested and released more frequently. This approach allows for incremental changes with both lower costs and risk.

Continuous integration is a software development practice that moves the integration phase earlier in the development cycle so that developing, testing and integrating code happens with greater frequency. The development team merges code changes into a shared, central repository several times a day in order to release a product version at any moment. This requires an integration process which is reproducible and automated.

Continuous Integration and Product Experimentation

Running a successful experimentation organization requires the development team to work quickly and efficiently because of the need to iterate once your features have been used in real-world environments. Feature flags allow you to experiment with more confidence and not worry about having to change infrastructure or code if you want to enable or disable a feature.

To help keep A/B testing as a key part of your organization’s deployment process, Taplytics integrates feature flags, rollouts, and variables with experimentation, allowing you to control the entire product development lifecycle in one place. By first running an A/B test to a portion of traffic, your team can test and gradually optimize a new feature.

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