Deployment

Faster, more responsive software deployment

Horizon is built on a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline – which means software upgrades are better, faster and more responsive to your needs. We facilitate upgrades as soon as they make sense for each client, and our expectation is that upgrades will occur at least once a year.

The CI/CD pipeline brings many other benefits:

Faster time to market

CI/CD pipelines automate the process of integrating code changes, testing, and deploying applications. This automation significantly reduces development-to-production time, enabling faster and more frequent releases.

Improved code quality

Automated testing ensures that code changes meet predefined standards and don't introduce regressions. This maintains and improves overall code quality by enforcing coding standards, reducing the likelihood of introduced errors, and enhancing code maintainability.

Consistent and reproducible builds

In a CI/CD pipeline, each build is consistent and reproducible across different environments. This reduces the “it works on my machine” problem, and clients can depend on reliable deployments.

Automated deployment

Continuous delivery automates the deployment process; releases are more frequent and more reliable. Automated deployments reduce human errors associated with manual deployment, leading to more stable and predictable software releases.

Risk reduction

Frequent integration, automated testing and automated deployment helps us catch issues before they can be introduced into production.