Measuring the real world

Analyzing and measuring your code and engineering expertise is one thing; however, for CD and DevOps to work, you also need to keep an eye on the overall platform, the running software, and the progress of CD and DevOps effectiveness. Let's start with environments.

Measuring the stability of the environments

As mentioned earlier, it might be that you have a number of different environments that are used for different purposes throughout the product-delivery process. As your release cycle speeds up, your reliance on these various environments will grow—if you're working in a two-to-three-month release cycle, having an issue within one of the environments for half a day or so will not have a vast impact on your release, whereas ...

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