If every environment rebuilds, staging never validated the bytes production runs. The promotion model auditors and 2am responders both love, plus the costs nobody mentions until adoption.
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Why promote one artifact through dev, staging and prod instead of rebuilding for each environment?
If every environment rebuilds, staging never validated the bytes production runs. The promotion model auditors and 2am responders both love, plus the costs nobody mentions until adoption.
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