Looker introduces Continuous Integration to help developers streamline code development workflows and enhance user experience.
Continuous Integration in Looker ensures data consistency by unifying changes to data pipelines, models, reports, and dashboards automatically.
The feature proactively tests new code changes before deployment to maintain a strong user experience and data integrity.
Benefits of Continuous Integration in Looker include early error detection, improved data quality, enhanced efficiency, and increased confidence in deployments.
It offers validators to flag SQL changes, identify outdated LookML definitions, and validate LookML for errors and antipatterns.
Developers can manage Continuous Integration directly within Looker, monitor test runs, manage configurations, and trigger runs manually or automatically.
Continuous Integration helps promote developmental best practices, reduce errors in production, and increase organizational confidence in data.
Overall, Continuous Integration in Looker provides a consistently reliable experience for users, enhancing reliability across all use cases.