Continuous Delivery Engineering: Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

Continuous Delivery Engineering offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the principles, practices, and evolving landscape of modern software delivery. Beginning with a deep dive into the origins and core philosophies of continuous delivery, the book lays a solid foundation with historical context, economic rationale, and essential tenets such as automation, feedback loops, and overcoming adoption challenges in organizations of all sizes. Readers are guided through the critical distinctions between integration, deployment, and release, gaining both a strategic and technical understanding of what truly enables continuous, reliable software flow.

Building on this foundation, the book navigates the architectural intricacies of pipeline design, version control, build engineering, and automated quality assurance. Detailed case studies and advanced patterns are presented for orchestrating robust delivery pipelines—covering event-driven workflows, artifact traceability, secure build practices, handling large codebases, and resilient automated testing. Infrastructure as code, environment automation, progressive deployment methods, and release engineering further equip the reader with the tools and frameworks needed to implement scalable, compliant, and high-performing delivery systems.