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"text": "2016 January 29, Necco Ceresani, \"You Are Ready for Continuous Delivery, Take the Leap\" XebiaLabs\nMost people call this Continuous Integration, but like DevOps, it is just a vocabulary word for working together, and making sure everything works together.giphy (3)"
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"ref": "2019 July 30, Kyle Smith, “The Impossible Elegance of George Will”, in National Review",
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