Comment by throwanem

Part of the point of having release infrastructure is so that every engineer doesn't have to know how to manage a deployment, even. Having worked both with and without it, I have to say I favor the former. The occasional loss of productivity due to a service provider outage, or even due to whatever the hell's going on today, is vastly outweighed by the day-to-day baseline requiring next to no time spent on the mechanics of taking code from review approval to live in prod.