The text discusses Trunk-Based Development (TBD), a version control management practice that helps reduce challenges associated with branch management and merge conflicts. TBD is an old practice that originated from earlier version control systems, but its popularity has grown in recent years due to its benefits in continuous integration and deployment. In TBD, developers make frequent small changes directly to the main branch or trunk, instead of creating long-lived feature branches. This approach prioritizes regular integration of code changes and their testing within a shared environment, which helps identify and address integration problems promptly, lowering the chances of such issues occurring again. TBD is common among DevOps teams as it works seamlessly with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) services. The role of merge queues in TBD includes managing code changes, ensuring a streamlined and controlled process for integrating PRs into the main development branch, reducing integration complexities and conflicts. Implementing TBD requires creating pivotal branches such as main, staging, and production branches, prioritizing code quality and integration through CI systems, and utilizing CD systems. The approach is beneficial in projects that change frequently and require swift deployment, but may be less suitable for long-term projects with separate branch management. The advantages of TBD include a simpler codebase, faster time-to-market, improved feedback loop, easier debugging, and better isolation problems. However, it also has disadvantages such as isolation problems, learning curve, code conflicts, dependency management issues, versioning and rollbacks challenges. To implement TBD effectively, companies should adopt automation first, avoid code freezes, conduct pair or mob programming, utilize feature flags management tools, and follow best practices.