Relief. The first thing that comes to a developer’s mind when they hear the word “software release”, regardless of whether it’s manual or continuous deployment. That code they’ve been working on for ages is finally live. All bugs cleared. Releasing software means the job is done. And it’s well done.

Everyone’s happy to present their new product. But only those who have really worked on it know the huge amounts of effort it took to get there. Especially teams who still do manual deployment instead of continuous deployment.

Manual deployment is like riding on a rollercoaster. You never know what’s going to happen next. More importantly, you don’t know WHEN it’s going to happen.

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