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DZone has recently released the latest version of their free DevOps report: [“The DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation, Volume IV”](https://dzone.com/guides/devops-continuous-delivery-and-automation), a collection of articles, reports and surveys by IT experts.

DevOps does not need introductions anymore in 2017 – it has become the “new normal” in software development and is a permanent topic of discussion. The collected articles explore the current state of DevOps, including industry challenges, best practices, and solutions with a focus on continuous delivery and automation.

We have contributed a piece to the DZone guide as well. [Manuel Pais](/content/meet-the-team/#ManuelPais/index.html) and [Matthew Skelton](/content/meet-the-team/#MatthewSkelton/index.html) collaborated on an article about [“Continuous Delivery Anti-Patterns”](https://dzone.com/articles/continuous-delivery-anti-patterns). They have explored the “unintentional” and often hard-to-notice anti-patterns that might emerge when adopting a “DevOps one-stop shop” solution, such as: _Environment-Driven Pipelines_ or _Error Handling and Logging Behind Closed Doors_. (Previously, [Matthew Skelton](/content/meet-the-team/#MatthewSkelton/index.html) has delivered several talks on other Continuous Delivery anti-patterns we’ve seen in our experience, [see the slides from IP EXPO Europe](https://www.slideshare.net/SkeltonThatcher/continuous-delivery-antipatterns-from-the-wild-matthew-skelton-ipexpo-europe) for example.)

The article was published in the guide and separately here: [https://dzone.com/articles/continuous-delivery-anti-patterns](https://dzone.com/articles/continuous-delivery-anti-patterns).

The other contributors to “[The DZone Guide to Continuous Delivery](https://dzone.com/guides/devops-continuous-delivery-and-automation)” include [Anders Wallgren](https://twitter.com/anders_wallgren) (CTO, Electric Cloud) – “Microservices And Docker At Scale”, [Job van der Voort](https://twitter.com/Jobvo) (VP of Product, GitLab) – “9 Benefits Of Continuous Integration”, [Christian Posta](https://twitter.com/christianposta) (Principal Middleware Architect at Red Hat and Open-Source Enthusiast) – “Why Microservices Should Be Event Driven” and many more!

Download the guide now via the DZone website:

[https://dzone.com/guides/devops-continuous-delivery-and-automation](https://dzone.com/guides/devops-continuous-delivery-and-automation)  
DZone has a few other guides available too as well, see the link below:

We have been featured in two other guides previously as well:

[“The DZone Guide To Continuous Delivery, Vol III”](/content/blog/securing-continuous-delivery-pipeline-featured-dzone/index.html)

[“The DZone Guide To Continuous Delivery, 2015 Edition”](/content/blog/dzone-2015-guide-continuous-delivery-choose-tools/index.html)

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_At Skelton Thatcher Consulting we can help you accelerate your Continuous Delivery and DevOps initiatives through workshops, tools onboarding, training, and demonstrations. Contact the team [here](/content/contact-us/index.html)._