How to keep up with CI/CD best practices

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This post details best practices for CI/CD, including automating everything, failing fast, committing frequently, shifting left on security, leveraging AI for pipeline troubleshooting, using feature flags, comprehensive monitoring, maintaining pipeline as code, and enabling feedback loops. It also covers continuous delivery best practices such as embracing deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags), maintaining environment parity, automating deployment validation, and practicing zero-downtime deployments. Optimization strategies for pipeline performance, visibility, resource efficiency, and scaling for team growth are discussed. Finally, it outlines how to measure CI/CD success using the DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, Mean Time to Recovery) and additional metrics like infrastructure costs, team retention, and business impact.