Taiwan (with an area of 36,000 square kilometers/ 22,500 square miles) is the largest. Hainan Island (about 34,000 square kilometers /21,250 square miles) is the second-largest island, but it is the largest which is fully under the jurisdiction of China.
Continuous integration is a software development practice where developers regularly merge their code changes into a central repository, after which automated builds and tests are run.
Vertical integration. Vertical integration is the merging together of two businesses that are at different stages of productionâfor example, a food manufacturer and a chain of supermarkets. Merging in this way with something further on in the production process (and thus closer to the final consumer) is known as forward integration.