The guide addresses the gap in CI/CD resources by offering practical advice on implementing best practices, focusing on the technical aspects and the consequences of not adhering to them. It emphasizes the importance of having all application files under source control, creating a single artifact for all environments to avoid configuration discrepancies, and promoting artifacts rather than Git commits to maintain consistency and efficiency in the pipeline. The guide advocates using short-lived branches for each feature to simplify quality gating and deployment, ensuring that builds are fast and involve minimal manual steps, typically taking 5 to 10 minutes. Additionally, it highlights the significance of storing and caching dependencies to ensure build stability and reliability, suggesting testing builds in an air-gapped environment to identify missing dependencies that could cause issues in real-world scenarios.