No Consensus on Optimal CI/CD Branching Strategy for Safe Production Releases
Engineering teams debate between trunk-based development and release branches, with each approach carrying different tradeoffs for release cadence, artifact management, and rollback capability. The lack of a clear industry standard forces each team to discover the right fit through trial and error.
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