The 2023 State of CD report, commissioned by the Continuous Delivery Foundation and authored by SlashData, examines the adoption and performance of DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices, highlighting the importance of constructing high-performance DevOps toolchains. Effective toolchains integrate various tools across the Continuous Delivery pipeline, such as work item management, source control, build and test automation, and monitoring, to ensure frequent and reliable deployments. The report indicates that high-performing teams often use a greater number of tools than low performers, with nearly 45% of low performers relying on a single tool and deploying less frequently. To build a successful toolchain, it is recommended to select best-in-class tools, prefer managed solutions over self-hosting, keep workloads uncluttered, and minimize tool dependencies, as these strategies help avoid slowdowns caused by poor tools, self-hosting burdens, and interoperability issues.