US Patent 10216509 Continuous and automatic application development and deployment

Integrated application development and deployment may speed up application development. The continuous integration component of a software development engine may generate a completed version of a deployment project in a development environment by at least generating an updated version of a first project element concurrently with integrating an initial version of the first project element with an initial version of a second project element. The updated version of the first project element is then integrated with the initial version of the second project element to generate the completed version. An orchestration component may configure a production environment to execute a production image that is a copy of a development image that is created from the completed version, in which the production environment is mirrored by the development environment. The continuous integration tool may also include an automatic deployment component that deploys the production image into the production environment for execution.