In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and deployment, the integration of generative AI has emerged as a transformative force for continuous delivery. Generative AI has opened up new avenues of innovation for automated testing, optimizing deployment strategies and anomaly detection, among others. In this episode of The CD Pipeline, hosts Alan Shimel and Lori Lorusso are joined by expert panelists, Aravind Kannan, director, software engineering at eBay, Christie Warwick, software engineer at Google, and Ravi Lachhman, product manager at Harness, to discuss the impact of generative AI and explore various use cases and implications of the technology in the context of continuous delivery.

As software development practices evolve, continuous delivery (CD) has become a popular approach for accelerating the delivery of high-quality software products. Robust testing methodologies introduced throughout the software development life cycle are central to the success of CD, but there are some challenges organizations need to address first. This panel brings together industry experts Tracy Ragan (CEO at DeployHub), Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Co-CEO at Launchable) and Ole Lensmar (CTO at Testkube) to explore the importance of testing in continuous delivery and its impact on the overall software development process. Along with hosts Alan Shimel and Lori Lorusso, the panelists will delve into the challenges faced by organizations seeking to adopt CD, how testing plays a pivotal role in mitigating risks associated with frequent software releases and what the CD Foundation is doing to advance the state of testing in continuous delivery.

At the recent cdCon + GitOpsCon conference, The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced the release of the fourth State of Continuous Delivery 2023 Report. The report findings are based on two and a half years of SlashData’s Developer Nation surveys from Q3 2020 to Q1 2023 that collected data from more than 125,000 respondents. Hosts Alan Shimel and Melissa McKay are joined by Liam Dodd (senior market research analyst at SlashData), Andrew Fong (CEO/co-founder at Prodvana) and Steve Fenton (octonaut at Octopus Deploy) for a conversation about and analysis of the State of Continuous Delivery 2023 Report. These expert panelists will reflect on the claims made and will share their thoughts on the key insights delivered in the report. Are software teams actually benefiting from the prevalence of DevOps tools available today? Are security concerns putting a wrench in software delivery performance benchmarks? Join our panelists for an exciting discussion about the true state of continuous delivery and other DevOps practices.