I wrote up a bunch of pros/cons on continuous deployment about 3 months ago http://mayerdan.com/programming/2013/08/04/thoughts-on-continuous-deployment/ http:

I wrote up a bunch of pros/cons on continuous deployment about 3 months ago http://mayerdan.com/programming/2013/08/04/thoughts-on-continuous-deployment/ http://mayerdan.com/programming/2013/08/04/thoughts-on-conti... I am pro continuous integration, continuous delivery to staging. I think it takes extra care to do continuous deployment to production. There needs to be a number of systems in place some of which @mattjaynes mentioned others really depend on having a very solid and accessible deployment pipeline.