  Numerous articles emphasize the benefits of implementing Continuous
Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in software development. These
pipelines are expected to improve the reputation of a project and decrease the
number of commits and issues in the repository. Although CI/CD adoption may be
slow initially, it is believed to accelerate service delivery and deployment in
the long run. This study aims to investigate the impact of CI/CD on commit
velocity and issue counts in two open-source repositories, GitLab and GitHub.
By analyzing more than 12,000 repositories and recording every commit and
issue, it was discovered that CI/CD enhances commit velocity by 141.19 percent,
but also increases the number of issues by 321.21 percent.
