"value":"\n <p>As well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2025\/02\/18\/conflicts\">causing merge conflicts<\/a>, feature branches slow the delivery of new features.<\/p>\n\n<p>Someone needs to be responsible for merging the branches once they've been reviewed and approved, and any further merges into release branches.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is typically the Lead Developer on the project, but this person then becomes a bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n<p>They need to oversee all the branches and merges, and know what needs to be merged and where it needs to be deployed.<\/p>\n\n<p>This slows down the speed of delivery.<\/p>\n\n<p>In a trunk-based environment, there's only one branch and everyone can commit and push to it.<\/p>\n\n<p>And, if you're <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2025\/02\/17\/ci-cd\">doing continuous delivery<\/a>, any changes will be automatically deployed.<\/p>\n\n<p>No more bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>As well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2025\/02\/18\/conflicts\">causing merge conflicts<\/a>, feature branches slow the delivery of new features.<\/p>\n\n<p>Someone needs to be responsible for merging the branches once they've been reviewed and approved, and any further merges into release branches.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is typically the Lead Developer on the project, but this person then becomes a bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n<p>They need to oversee all the branches and merges, and know what needs to be merged and where it needs to be deployed.<\/p>\n\n<p>This slows down the speed of delivery.<\/p>\n\n<p>In a trunk-based environment, there's only one branch and everyone can commit and push to it.<\/p>\n\n<p>And, if you're <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/daily\/2025\/02\/17\/ci-cd\">doing continuous delivery<\/a>, any changes will be automatically deployed.<\/p>\n\n<p>No more bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n ",