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Continuous improvement and marginal gains

Continuous improvement and marginal gains

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Continuous improvement and marginal gains

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- [Instructor] Continuous improvement, continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment. There is a lot of continuous happening in software, and embracing these practices can have a profound positive impact on distributed teams. So, just what are all of these continuous practices, and how do they relate to each other? The underlying goal of these practices is to make it as easy as possible for a developer to get their changes incorporated into the application they're working on. The principles are inspired by lean manufacturing which has long-embraced the idea of reducing the amount of time from production to delivery. Just like a physical product can lose value if it sits in a warehouse for too long, the quality of your code can deteriorate if it's not put into production quickly. So let's start at the beginning, continuous improvement. This is the practice of identifying areas of improvement, no matter how small, and then implementing those improvements as quickly…

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