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Backend & systems·Deployment, release and rollback

you put the new build on the servers, which is a completely separate event from anybody actually using the new behaviour.

Deployment

Moving a build into an environment. It is a technical act, reversible and low-drama when the code is deployed dark. Conflating it with release is what makes shipping scary, because it forces every change to be exposed the moment it lands.

Commonly confused with