Chapter 2. No Pain, No Gain

In the previous chapter, you were introduced to ACME systems and given an insight into how they realized that they had problems with their software delivery process (severely impacting their overall product-delivery capability), how they identified and addressed these problems, evolved, and after much hard work and some time, adopted a CD and DevOps ways of working. This isn't to say that you should simply dive in and adopt CD and DevOps because ACME systems did—far from it.

CD and DevOps, like any solution, can help you solve a problem, but you need to truly understand what the problem you're trying to solve is for it to be fully effective.

ACME systems took the time to understand the problem(s) they had before they ...

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