Continuous integration/continuous deployment
Perhaps you have come across this term before. Continuous integration and continuous deployment, also known as CI/CD, is a practice used in software development to enhance the speed and quality of the software delivery process. It is an automated approach that involves the CI of code changes and testing to ensure the early detection of issues and faster delivery of software updates.
The benefits of CI/CD are multifold. It helps to reduce the likelihood of introducing new bugs into the code base, as well as ensuring that the code changes are always in a releasable state. This means that code updates can be deployed more frequently, which, in turn, leads to faster feedback loops, and ultimately, better customer satisfaction.
From an analytics engineering perspective, an example of CI/CD in action is the development of models in dbt. In this scenario, as soon as a developer pushes a code change to a shared repository, a series of automated...
