Continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment: Which to choose? Continuous delivery and continuous deployment both compress and de-risk the final stages of production rollout. Learn how to choose the proper path for your organization. Share this item with your network: By Published: 30 Apr 2021 Most organizations today rely on a pipeline process to build and check in software, with rapid feedback to determine when the build broke and what change broke it. For the final step of production deployment, compile checks and unit tests have less value in a world of interpreted languages, web apps and APIs. Instead, continuous delivery and continuous deployment speed up deployments with less risk, and shift quality to the right into the purview of operations staff.