CI tooling

When making the development transition to a more organized project, the tooling we will go through is organized around what is known as the software development life cycle. This is generally understood as the preferred path when writing software. This life cycle isn’t always a good fit – for example, in research-style projects such as data science projects.

We have set up a large number of tools, but let’s now take a look first at Git and GitHub.

Git and GitHub

Source control is a fundamental component in writing software and managing technology. When you write your code, you check it into source control. When you are ready to bring that code into the main branch, you create a pull request. A pull request is a process where other members of the team will review your code, discuss portions of that code, and work together with you. The output of a pull request is confidence in the new feature you are bringing into your project.

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