14 articles tagged #CI/CD
Many engineering teams spend weeks building CI/CD pipelines from scratch. If you've already created production-ready pipeline templates, you may have the foundation for a profitable developer product. Learn how to package, market, and monetize your CI/CD templates as a paid DevOps starter kit.
Database branching sounds like a solved problem until you try to ship it in a real PR workflow. Here's how PlanetScale and Neon actually behave on branching speed, cost, and day-to-day developer friction.
You just pushed a critical fix to production, but users are still seeing the old version. Your service worker is serving stale cache. Here's exactly why it happens and how to fix it permanently.
ChatGPT can draft Dockerfile multi-stage builds quickly, but it often ships dev dependencies, root users, and massive base images into production. Here's how to prompt it accurately and audit what it gives you.
Your ECS service should scale out automatically when traffic spikes, but it doesn't — tasks stay at minimum count while CPU pegs at 100%. Here's how to diagnose and fix stalled auto scaling before it costs you uptime.
A failed Terraform apply can leave a lock record in DynamoDB that blocks every subsequent command. Here's how to diagnose the stale lock, safely remove it, and prevent it from happening again.
Netlify and Cloudflare Pages both promise free frontend hosting, but their real-world build limits, bandwidth caps, and edge function pricing tell a very different story. Here's what actually matters before you deploy.
Storing secrets in .env files and hoping for the best is a liability. Doppler and Infisical both promise to fix that — but their DX, pricing models, and self-hosting stories are very different. Here's what actually matters.
ChatGPT can draft CI/CD pipeline configs fast, but it also hallucinates runner tags, invents deprecated syntax, and skips steps your team considers obvious. Here's how to prompt your way to configs that actually run.
Deploying a full-stack app on Vercel feels effortless until the invoice arrives or a cold start kills your API response time. Here's a head-to-head cost and performance test based on real workloads, not marketing pages.
Your ECS tasks are healthy — until they're suddenly not. ALB health check flapping is one of the sneakiest causes of task churn in production. Here's how to find the root cause and stop the cycle for good.
Your ECS task keeps dying before the container even starts, and the logs just say 'ResourceInitializationError'. The culprit is often a Secrets Manager timeout — here's how to diagnose and fix it fast.