Designing resilient CI pipelines with ephemeral runners
Why ephemeral runners drastically reduce pipeline flakiness, how to scale them automatically, and what metrics matter when debugging resource starvation.
Short, focused articles on CI/CD, scaling, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and production engineering — written for busy developers.
Why ephemeral runners drastically reduce pipeline flakiness, how to scale them automatically, and what metrics matter when debugging resource starvation.
Practical, non-disruptive cluster hardening techniques: RBAC tightening, PSP replacements, secrets isolation, and safe admission controllers.
How to prevent configuration drift in multi-team environments using automated plans, policy-as-code, and selective state partitioning.
Blueprint for centralizing logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry and scaling ingestion pipelines efficiently.
How real teams implement error budgets, integrate them into planning, and prevent slowdowns while keeping reliability strong.
Practical autoscaling guidelines: mixed-instance groups, cooldown tuning, and safe overprovisioning patterns.