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CI/CD Pipelines & Automation

Continuous integration and continuous delivery automate the path from a commit to a tested, deployable, and deployed artifact. These guides cover building reliable pipelines — running tests and linting on every change, building and versioning artifacts, and deploying safely with strategies like blue-green and canary releases.

The emphasis is on fast, trustworthy feedback and safe releases: caching, parallelization, secrets handling, and gates that catch regressions before users do.

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••3 months ago

Terraform Modules Done Right: Lessons from Managing 50+ Services

Practical patterns for Terraform modules at scale: versioning, composition, testing, and avoiding the monolith trap.

Kiril Urbonas·10

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How We Cut Our Docker Image Size by 80% and Why It Matters

••3 months ago

How We Cut Our Docker Image Size by 80% and Why It Matters

A real walkthrough of shrinking bloated Docker images from 1.2GB to 240MB using multi-stage builds, Alpine, and dependency auditing.

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Artifact Promotion Instead of Rebuilds: The Release Control Pattern That Stopped Drift

••3 months ago

Artifact Promotion Instead of Rebuilds: The Release Control Pattern That Stopped Drift

A practical artifact promotion guide for CI/CD teams that were tired of hearing 'it passed in staging' after production behaved differently because the release was rebuilt.

Kiril Urbonas·51

Terraform Module Version Pinning: How One Platform Team Stopped Surprise Breakage

••3 months ago

Terraform Module Version Pinning: How One Platform Team Stopped Surprise Breakage

A real-world Terraform module version pinning guide for platform teams that want safer upgrades, clearer ownership, and fewer broken pipelines after shared module releases.

Kiril Urbonas·6

Blue-Green Deployment Guardrails in Kubernetes: Lessons from a Failed Friday Rollout

••3 months ago

Blue-Green Deployment Guardrails in Kubernetes: Lessons from a Failed Friday Rollout

A Kubernetes blue-green deployment guide built around a real rollout failure, showing the guardrails that matter when traffic shifting, health checks, and rollback timing all interact.

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GitHub Actions Monorepo CI: How We Cut Build Times Without Breaking Main

••4 months ago

GitHub Actions Monorepo CI: How We Cut Build Times Without Breaking Main

A practical GitHub Actions monorepo CI guide built around a real scaling problem: long queues, noisy failures, and developers waiting 40 minutes for feedback.

Kiril Urbonas·24

End-of-Week Engineering: Why Smart Tech Teams Don’t Ship Major Changes on Friday

••4 months ago

End-of-Week Engineering: Why Smart Tech Teams Don’t Ship Major Changes on Friday

A practical risk-management framework for release timing, Friday deployment policies, progressive delivery, and how elite teams protect reliability and people.

Kiril Urbonas·29

GitHub Actions for Monorepos: Fast CI Without Pipeline Chaos

••4 months ago

GitHub Actions for Monorepos: Fast CI Without Pipeline Chaos

A practical pattern for monorepo CI with path filters, matrix builds, caching, and deployment guards that keep feedback fast as teams scale.

Kiril Urbonas·14

Azure DevOps Best Practices in 2026: Build Pipelines You Can Trust

••4 months ago

Azure DevOps Best Practices in 2026: Build Pipelines You Can Trust

A production-focused guide to Azure DevOps: standardized YAML templates, secure service connections, rollout safety, and measurable delivery reliability.

Kiril Urbonas·59

Container Image Scanning in CI and at Runtime

••7 months ago

Container Image Scanning in CI and at Runtime

Shift-left security with image scanning. Trivy, policy gates, and runtime integration.

Kiril Urbonas·8

CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Speeding Up Your Builds

••9 months ago

CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Speeding Up Your Builds

We cut our average CI build time from 28 minutes to 6 minutes. The changes that mattered, ranked by impact.

Kiril Urbonas·9

Container Security Scanning: Protecting Your Docker Images

••9 months ago

Container Security Scanning: Protecting Your Docker Images

We scan every container image in CI and at runtime. Trivy + Cosign + admission controllers. The setup that earns its place and what we wish we'd known.

Kiril Urbonas·12

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