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Date Published
Author
Yoram Mireles, Director of Product Marketing
Word count
800
Language
English
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None

Summary

The speed at which businesses can deploy applications is a prime determinant of their agility. Improving inter-team collaboration and time to deployment is crucial for boosting business efficiency and implementing key performance indicators (KPIs). Time to deployment measures how long it takes to deploy software to a production environment, and its impact on business agility is significant. Faster time-to-market, enhanced customer feedback loops, and adaptability and innovation are the benefits of frequent deployments. Various strategies can increase deployment frequency, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automation in testing and quality assurance, test-driven development, and constant monitoring and measuring with application performance management (APM) tools. APM capabilities like New Relic empower organizations to monitor and optimize their applications throughout the development lifecycle, identifying issues early, reducing deployment risks, and expediting the deployment process.