"value":"\n <p>Yesterday I replied to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ianmiell\/status\/1304103008242991111\">a post on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I have worked on many teams that use CI tooling and call their process CI, but I have never seen CI actually done as defined on Wikipedia:<\/p>\n \n <p>\"CI is the practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/blog\/continuous-integration-vs-continuous-integration\">I've written about this before<\/a> and I think the term CI or CI\/CD is one of the most misused or misleading in software development.<\/p>\n\n<p>CI, or continuous integration, is, as the post days, the process of everyone merging their changes at least once, or usually several, times a day.<\/p>\n\n<p>It isn't something that is configured or created - it's a process.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"here%27s-the-thing\">Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n<p>You can do CI without a CI pipeline and vice versa.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can have a CI pipeline but not do continuous delivery or deployment.<\/p>\n\n<p>What most people think of as CI or CI\/CD is a set of automated checks that run when code is updated - usually on a feature or topic branch.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whilst important, it's not \"CI\".<\/p>\n\n ",
"processed":"\n <p>Yesterday I replied to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ianmiell\/status\/1304103008242991111\">a post on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I have worked on many teams that use CI tooling and call their process CI, but I have never seen CI actually done as defined on Wikipedia:<\/p>\n \n <p>\"CI is the practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverdavies.uk\/blog\/continuous-integration-vs-continuous-integration\">I've written about this before<\/a> and I think the term CI or CI\/CD is one of the most misused or misleading in software development.<\/p>\n\n<p>CI, or continuous integration, is, as the post days, the process of everyone merging their changes at least once, or usually several, times a day.<\/p>\n\n<p>It isn't something that is configured or created - it's a process.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"here%27s-the-thing\">Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n<p>You can do CI without a CI pipeline and vice versa.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can have a CI pipeline but not do continuous delivery or deployment.<\/p>\n\n<p>What most people think of as CI or CI\/CD is a set of automated checks that run when code is updated - usually on a feature or topic branch.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whilst important, it's not \"CI\".<\/p>\n\n ",