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Design how a build becomes a production release across four environments. Nobody can currently prove what is running.

Build once and move the same bytes. The moment an environment rebuilds from source, you are testing something that has never run anywhere, and no amount of pipeline output can tell you what production holds.

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Build once and move the same bytes. The moment an environment rebuilds from source, you are testing something that has never run anywhere, and no amount of pipeline output can tell you what production holds.

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