This article was originally published on AI Study Room . For the full version with working code examples and related articles, visit the original post. CI/CD Best Practices CI/CD Best Practices CI/CD Best Practices CI/CD Best Practices CI/CD Best Practices Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software. A well-designed CI/CD pipeline provides fast feedback, reliable deployments, and consistent quality gates. This article covers pipeline design principles, artifact management, environment promotion, and deployment strategies. Pipeline Design Principles A CI/CD pipeline should follow the fail-fast principle. Early stages should catch the most common and cheapest-to-fix issues. A linting or formatting check fails in seconds, saving the developer from waiting for a full test suite. Unit tests run before integration tests. The pipeline fails as soon as any stage fails, providing immediate feedback.…