Note: a shorter, summarised version of this article has been published on the Thoughtworks blog. Read the full article here or watch the talk delivered at XConf Europe:

Introduction

This is an article about the day to day of software development.

The industry seems to be at a point where a lot of us are using good practices such as Trunk Based Development and/or Continuous Deployment, or we are at least hassling our managers about it working towards it. I’m also a big fan.

But, as cool and shiny as these practices are, and as much as we reassure our fellow developers and stakeholders that they are completely safe, I believe they do present some risks.

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