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CircleCI vs GitHub Actions — Cost and Speed

We ran the same test suite on both platforms for a year. Here's where CircleCI earns its price, where GitHub Actions wins on simplicity, and what the bill actually looks like.

Kiril Urbonas·3

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Jenkins vs GitHub Actions — Migrate or Stay

We've run both in anger. Here's the honest breakdown of maintenance, cost, and flexibility, plus when Jenkins still earns its keep.

Kiril Urbonas·7

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GitHub Actions Best Practices in 2026: Workflows You Can Trust

A production-focused GitHub Actions guide: reusable workflows, least-privilege permissions, keyless OIDC to the cloud, SHA-pinned actions, environments with approvals, concurrency-safe deploys, and CodeQL/Dependabot gates — with copy-paste examples.

Kiril Urbonas·14

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GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI — Full Comparison

We've shipped production pipelines on both. Here's where GitHub Actions wins, where GitLab CI wins, and how to pick without regretting it in six months.

Kiril Urbonas·7

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GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows: DRY Pipelines at Org Scale

We had the same 180-line build workflow copy-pasted into 60 repos. Fixing one bug meant 60 PRs. Here's the reusable-workflow setup that made it one.

Kiril Urbonas·22

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OIDC Federation for GitHub Actions to AWS: Killing Long-Lived Keys

We rotated a leaked AWS access key that a workflow had committed to logs. Switching GitHub Actions to OIDC federation meant no static AWS keys exist to leak in the first place.

Kiril Urbonas·10

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CI Pipeline Caching That Actually Pays Off

Most CI caches either miss constantly or restore stale junk. The cache-key discipline, scope boundaries, and measurements that turned our pipeline cache from theatre into real minutes saved.

Kiril Urbonas·10

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Pipeline Observability — Why CI Failures Don't Trigger Alerts (And Should)

Production monitoring catches user-facing issues. CI failures stay invisible until someone notices the merge queue is stuck. The metrics and alerts that make pipelines observable.

Kiril Urbonas·13

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Your First CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Walk through a working GitHub Actions workflow — install, test, build, deploy — for a tiny Node app. Every line explained.

Kiril Urbonas·13

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Backstage Adoption: From Demo to 80% Service Coverage in 6 Months

We launched Backstage in October. Six months in, 80% of services are catalogued, on-boarding takes a third of the time, and we mostly know what owns what.

Kiril Urbonas·12

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