[quickthrower2]

It would be good to distinguish build-and-deploy which Vercel does by default to other pipelines where you might build the artefacts, test them, then the deploy is more of a copying of those artefacts into production. In the latter case the “deploy” would be faster.

[devtailz]

I don't think I can edit the post, but I agree. Though many have kind of described their process which gives somewhat of a picture. If anything it's been interesting hearing different people's definitions of deployment.

I would probably condense my definition to how quickly can you go from new code added to someone seeing that code running (in web dev terms essentially available on some URL). So even if you had different layers of pipeline, the build artifact stage would still be included, because you can't deploy without it.