This document discusses the benefits of continuous deployment and standardized deployment pipelines. It advocates for automating deployments to reduce errors and provide faster feedback. Integrating contract and integration tests into build pipelines allows failures to be detected early. Using approaches like Cloud Foundry and standardized tools allows deployments to different environments to be consistent. Contract tests catch integration issues during builds rather than later stages. Rollbacks should focus on rolling back the application rather than the database to simplify the process. Frequent, automated deployments and early testing are presented as best practices for deployment pipelines.
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