Release Engineering
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What is Release Engineering?

Release engineering is the discipline of building, packaging, and delivering software reliably, encompassing CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, versioning, and deployment automation.

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CI/CDSemantic VersioningContinuous Delivery

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