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Azure DevOps is a fully integrated solution for project management, issue tracking, source code hosting, and building and deploying solutions. Similar offerings are GitHub (also owned by Microsoft), GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com), or Atlassian's Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org). Together with CircleCI (https://circleci.com) or Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/), these platforms offer powerful tools for teams to make sure that every new deployment reliably meets their goals without large management overhead.
The basic idea is simple: by making the build work on a neutral platform, most of the obvious mistakes (missing dependencies or relying on environment specifics) can easily be avoided while running the same tests that ...
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