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First the good news. Your director is bringing by some influential investors to check out the latest version of your flagship Black Jack product. The bad news is they are going to be here in an hour!

That leaves you less than sixty minutes to create a stable build, push it onto the test server, and prepare for the demo.

What do you do?

Before you answer that, spend two minutes thinking of all the things that can go wrong whenever we deploy our software.

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These are the things we want to eliminate, or at least manage, with our continuous integration process. We want to create a culture of production readiness and be able to demo ...

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