DevOps
Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Choosing the Right Rollout Strategy
A concrete comparison of blue-green and canary deployment strategies, including the infrastructure they each require and where one clearly beats the other.
3 min read
Tag
CI/CD
7 articles
DevOps
GitOps: Declarative Deployment Workflows Done Right
How GitOps replaces imperative deploy scripts with a reconciled, auditable source of truth, and the practical patterns for running it well with Argo CD or Flux.
2 min read
Software Engineering
Trunk-Based Development and Merge Queues
How trunk-based development and merge queues reduce integration pain compared to long-lived feature branches, and what they require to work in practice.
3 min read
DevOps
CI Pipeline Caching Strategies That Actually Save Time
Practical caching techniques for CI pipelines, from dependency caches to Docker layer caches, and how to avoid the stale-cache bugs that undo the savings.
3 min read
Shopify
Shipping Hundreds of Times a Day: Shopify's Merge Queue and Deploy Pipeline
How Shopify keeps a single large Rails monolith deployable dozens of times daily using merge queues, canaries, and fast automated rollback.
3 min read
DevOps
Docker Image Layers and Build Cache Optimization
How Docker's layer cache actually works under the hood, and the Dockerfile patterns that keep builds fast instead of quietly rebuilding everything.
3 min read
Performance
Frontend Bundle Size Budgets and Enforcement
A bundle size budget that isn't enforced in CI is a suggestion, and suggestions don't survive contact with a deadline — here's how to make it stick.
3 min read