With over 18 years of experience in developing enterprise applications, I’ve seen firsthand how Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) have become crucial for teams aiming to deliver high-quality software swiftly and efficiently. At the core of many CI/CD pipelines lies Jenkins, an open-source automation server that has become indispensable for developers and DevOps engineers…
In the early years of my 18+ year tech career, manual deployment processes were once the norm. Developers and operations teams would painstakingly build, test, and deploy applications by hand, a process fraught with potential for error and delays. It was common practise for a single deployment to take hours, if not days, with every…