Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

Why this matters here

Humble and Farley’s Continuous Delivery describes feedback-rich build, test, and deployment automation that makes release risk visible and recoverable through frequent, reliable delivery. Coupling treats deployment metrics diagnostically—lead time, failure, and recovery as signals of distance, waiting, and fragmented ownership rather than as theater. The book’s source establishes delivery practice; Coupling asks whether metrics reconnect flow to consequence or only decorate throughput.