CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, infrastructure, and everything that keeps your code running.
How to manage environment variables and secrets in CI/CD pipelines safely: scoping, masking, OIDC, rotation, and the mistakes that leak credentials.
Zubair Hasan 9 min read What a CI build actually is: triggers, stages, caching and artefacts explained, and how continuous integration keeps your main branch releasable.
David White 6 min read A practical guide to secrets management: stop committing tokens, pick the right vault, rotate cleanly, and keep CI from leaking credentials in logs.
Gareth Clubb 10 min read A practical guide to setting and tracking SLOs: pick meaningful SLIs, calculate error budgets, alert on burn rate, and avoid the metrics that mislead teams.
Jonny Rowse 9 min read GitHub Actions patterns for faster, safer CI: reusable workflows, matrix builds, OIDC, dependency caching, concurrency control, and secret handling that scales.
Zubair Hasan 11 min read Learn how to speed up slow CI builds with dependency caching, parallelisation, incremental builds, and Docker layer optimisation. Practical patterns that work.
Jonny Rowse 14 min read Learn the key deployment strategies used by modern teams, including blue-green, canary, and rolling updates, with practical guidance on choosing the right one.
Zubair Hasan 10 min read A practical guide to managing dependencies so your projects stay secure, up to date, and free from unexpected breakage.
Gareth Clubb 9 min read A practical guide to managing environment variables across development, CI/CD, and production without leaking secrets.
David White 11 min read