I don't feel like the article really addresses "highly regulated environments". To me, that means things like avionics, military equipment, medical devices, and nuclear power plants (cf. the list of things buried in most sufficiently-BigCo EULAs that you're not allowed to use the software for). Are there good examples of CD-like practices being used in these domains?

I'm also a bit disappointed at how generic a lot of the wording is. It seems like you could do a search-and-replace of "continuous delivery" with almost any other process improvement term (e.g. agile, kaizen, Six Sigma) and have people nodding right along for 90% of it. Is there a concise explanation somewhere that really makes clear how this is something more fundamental than devops-flavored kaizen? Or am I expected to read the entire "canon" before I understand it enough to evaluate it?