This document discusses the benefits of continuous delivery and deployment. It notes that without proper processes, deployments can fail due to crashes, failed migrations, or interrupted updates when introducing new features. Continuous delivery uses tools and methodologies to make releases low risk, fast, predictable, and ensure smooth deployments. The document outlines some of the key aspects of continuous delivery like source code management, continuous integration, automated deployments, monitoring, and root cause analysis. It discusses how these practices can help make software releases cheaper, more frequent, rapid, and reduce stress and errors compared to traditional release processes.