How to keep up with CI/CD best practices

This post outlines best practices for CI/CD, including using a unified platform, automating everything, failing fast, committing frequently, shifting left on security, leveraging AI for pipeline troubleshooting, using feature flags, monitoring everything, maintaining pipeline as code, and enabling feedback loops. It also details continuous delivery best practices such as embracing deployment strategies, 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 provided. Finally, it highlights the importance of measuring CI/CD success using DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to recovery) and additional metrics like infrastructure costs and team retention.