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Compare Artifact Promotion (Build Once) with a common alternative in a design review
Compare Artifact Promotion (Build Once) with a common alternative in a design review
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Compare Artifact Promotion (Build Once) vs the usual alternative on complexity, latency, failure modes, and ops cost. Pros: What you tested is what you ship. Cons: Needs good registry + digest pinning.
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Design-review comparison for Artifact Promotion (Build Once): Axes: correctness, latency, throughput, complexity, operability. From the topic: Pros: What you tested is what you ship. Cons: Needs good registry + digest pinning. Recommendation: pick Artifact Promotion (Build Once) when its strengths match the SLO; otherwise choose the alternative and say why. Parent context: At Fresher depth: start with the problem, then mechanism, then a short example. Build a versioned image/package once in CI; promote the same digest through staging→prod.
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Show a clear decision framework, not “it depends” with no criteria. Pros: What you tested is what you ship. Cons: Needs good registry + digest pinning.
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Parent context — Artifact Promotion (Build Once)
At Fresher depth: start with the problem, then mechanism, then a short example. Build a versioned image/package once in CI; promote the same digest through staging→prod.
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