Recognize · Diagnose · Transform

CI/CD
Anti-Patterns

Why Continuous Integration and Delivery Fail - & How to Engineer Better Outcomes

A practitioner-first guide to understanding why Continuous Integration and software delivery systems fail—and how engineering teams can improve requirements, architecture, testing, automation, flow, culture and continuous learning.

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CI/CD Anti-Patterns book cover by Anish Cheriyan, PhD

What the book explores

CI is a reflection of the engineering system behind it.

Recognize

Identify recurring technical, organizational and cultural anti-patterns that quietly weaken Continuous Integration.

Diagnose

Look beyond a broken build or slow pipeline to the requirements, architecture, test strategy, ownership and culture underneath.

Transform

Use adaptable engineering principles and practices to improve the complete software delivery lifecycle—not merely the CI toolchain.

About the book

Engineering principles over copied practices.

Every team, product and organization has a different story. The book is designed as a companion guide: learn from recurring patterns, get inspired by proven approaches, and adapt the practices to your own context rather than copying another organization’s implementation.

It brings together doctoral research, years of engineering experience across organizations, open-source participation and professional community work.

“Continuous Integration is not merely about integrating software continuously. It is about continuously improving the engineering system that creates the software.”

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