the.com/development pipeline
the assembly line where ideas go to get bruised before they get shipped.
means the sequence of stages, planning, building, testing, deploying, that code or content moves through on its way from idea to done.
from borrowed from oil and gas infrastructure, where crude flows through fixed stages toward refinement; software engineers stole the metaphor because ideas, like crude oil, are useless until processed.
stall pointmost pipelines clog at testing, not building
parallel meaningsame word describes hiring, sales, and drug development
ci cd linkcontinuous integration automated what pipelines used to do by hand