The ability for a team to #deploy a properly tested and #versioned software system on their internal or #cloud-based infrastructure is a good indication of the maturity of a team. Any #manual step in that process (with the exception of manually triggering a #deploymentpipeline) is a potential liability and must be automated. People make mistakes, regardless of how meticulous they are. It's a fact of life.

On the other hand, a well-designed deployment pipeline takes care of compiling the...