Deploy
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Deploying is taking your code from your computer and making it live on the internet for real users. Before: only you can see it. After deploy: the whole world can. It's opening the restaurant doors after all the prep work.
Real Talk
Deployment is the process of making an application available in a target environment (staging, production). It involves building artefacts, copying files to servers, running migrations, configuring infrastructure, and routing traffic to the new version.
When You'll Hear This
"Deploy to staging first, then to production after QA signs off." / "The deploy failed — rolled back to the previous version."
Related Terms
Build
A build is the process of turning your development code into something a real computer or browser can run efficiently.
Cron
Cron is a scheduler that runs your code automatically at set times.
Localhost
Localhost is your computer pretending to be a web server just for you.
Rollback
A rollback is the panic button. When you deploy something and it breaks production, you hit rollback and the system reverts to the last working version — l...
Ship
Shipping means getting your feature or fix out to users — it's the end goal of all the coding.