I'd like to showcase the deployment pipeline I use daily. It results in fearless deployments to production, and an excellent developer experience. I'll start with the most boring parts, and save the best for last.

By itself, the deployment pipeline already provides several reassurances for every change: the code still builds, the tests still succeed, etc. It also makes code coverage reports available for those specific changes.

The cool thing is: new production-like environments are deployed for every Git branch I create. When I'm working on an issue, I create a new branch associated with that issue, which will set up a new environment in which that issue's fix can be tested in isolation.

This "Review App" has its own URL, its own environment-specific build artefacts and reports, and a separate database. I can thus play around freely without interfering with production. It also allows me to verify reproducibly whether database migrations work.