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Deployment strategies explained: types, trade-offs, and what each one actually costs

A deployment strategy is the method an engineering team uses to release new software to production. The six core deployment strategies are recreate (big bang), rolling update, blue-green, canary, A/B testing, and shadow deployment. Each trades off between downtime risk, rollback speed, infrastructure cost, and complexity. This guide covers all six along with what each strategy actually costs in cloud and AI infrastructure spend.

5 takeaways from the State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report

AI is pushing code volume up almost everywhere. Shipping it is still the hard part, and the gap between leaders and everyone else is getting wider. Today we’re releasing the 2026 State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report, a shorter check-in between our annual reports. We analyzed more than 20 million CircleCI workflows from March 2026 to see what’s changed since the comprehensive 2026 State of Software Delivery report we published in Q1.

How to Set Up Codex with CircleCI Plugin (Full Demo)

Learn how to connect OpenAI Codex to CircleCI so your coding agent can check pipelines, diagnose failed builds, fix bugs, and iterate until your CI pipeline is green. In this step-by-step demo, we walk through how to install and authenticate the CircleCI CLI, install the CircleCI plugin for Codex, validate your CircleCI configuration, and give Codex direct access to CI feedback. You’ll see how Codex can.

DORA measures delivery. DRIVE measures the organization behind it.

You can hit every DORA target and still be losing ground. Deploy frequency up, lead time down, change failure rate and MTTR both healthy, but underneath it could be hiding an organization slowly getting worse at turning work into reliable software. New services shipping without clear owners, an attack surface widening faster than anyone is tracking, on-call rotations quietly filling up, a migration that was supposed to close last quarter still limping along.

How to Build Enterprise AI Agents with Natural Language | Agent Lab Demo, Guardrails & AI Skills

Most enterprise AI agents take weeks to build. This one takes minutes. Watch how Agent Lab creates purpose-built agents with natural language, adds reusable skills, and sets guardrails before anything ships. From idea to production-ready in a single sitting.

AI ROI: From Adoption to Business Proof

AI adoption is easy to report. Business impact is harder to prove. Engineering leaders are under pressure to show what AI is actually changing — not just who is using it, but whether it is improving delivery, quality, developer experience, and business outcomes. This discussion between 3 engineering leaders explores how to move beyond vanity metrics, build a practical measurement approach, and communicate AI’s value to executives and CFOs with more credibility and less hype.

Make SBOM generation a build step, not a compliance project

Compliance work that lives outside the build pipeline becomes developer friction – and friction kills adoption. The simpler fix is to make SBOM generation a standard pipeline step via a reusable template, with output routed automatically to central storage and surfaced to the teams who need it. When developers can see their own license issues and vulnerability exposure without filing a ticket, compliance stops being a tax and starts being a byproduct of shipping.