Episode 1 — The Friday Deploy
Week 1. "Today you'll shadow me during a deployment." What You'll Learn By the end of this series, you'll be able to explain confidently: What actuall…
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From 1.2GB to 24MB: How I Sped Up Our Next.js CI/CD Pipeline by 4 in One Afternoon
The Situation Our team's CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps was taking 15 minutes to complete on every push to develop. You'd merge a PR, grab a coffee, c…
Test Result Reporting and Failing Fast in CI Pipelines
A test failure that takes 20 minutes to surface, buries the error in 3000 lines of log output, and gives no context about what changed is nearly usele…
Setting Up CI/CD for a Full Stack Monorepo
In Multi-Tenancy Architecture for SaaS we worked through how a single deployment serves many organizations without their data or traffic bleeding into…
Beyond CI/CD: Building Agentic Validation and Inspection Layers with LangGraph, MCP, and A2A
Modern CI/CD pipelines are exceptionally good at automation. They compile code, run tests, build artifacts, scan dependencies, deploy infrastructure, …
ActionsManager - manage GitHub Actions across repositories
I’ve been working on a self-hosted tool for managing GitHub Actions across multiple repositories, mostly because I was tired of maintaining the same w…
GitHub Actions & CI/CD, Explained Like a Robot Assembly Line
Estimated reading time: ~6 minutes. No prior experience required. The Friday deploy that ruined a weekend There was a ritual I do not miss: the manual…
How We Caught 12 Breaking API Changes Before They Hit Main: Our Journey to Ephemeral Staging Environments
The moment we realized our staging environment was broken It was 3 PM on a Thursday, and our team was scrambling. A critical API change had just been …
Inception в GitLab CI: практическая шпаргалка по вложенным пайплайнам для Middle+
По репозиториям на Git часто видно: вложенные пайплайны в GitLab CI остаются редкой экзотикой, а в проде в основном живут линейные сценарии. Тем не ме…
The Modern Browser Testing Stack: AI, CI, Human Review, and the Cost of Maintenance
Browser automation used to be easier to describe. A test opened a page, filled in a form, clicked a button, and checked the result. The hardest parts …
CI/CD Pipelines That Actually Work: My Quest Like a DevOps Jedi
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Look, I still remember the first time I tried to automate a build for a tiny side‑project. I slapped together a shell scr…
Blue/Green Release Emails for Kubernetes Ops
Blue/green rollouts look clean on diagrams, but the handoff can still be messy in real operations. Pods go healthy, the service flips, and everyone as…
Kubernetes Release Emails as a CI/CD Gate
Most teams validate pods, probes, and rollout status, but skip the email that tells humans a release actually happened. In cloud work, that message is…
Scaling Terraform Infrastructure Beyond a Single Team
When a single engineer manages all the Terraform in an organisation, everything is simple. One repo, one state, one pipeline, one set of credentials. …
Managing Terraform Across Multiple Cloud Providers
Most organisations don't live in a single cloud. You might run compute in AWS, DNS in Cloudflare, identity in Azure AD, and logging in GCP. Terraform …
Testing Management at Speed: Caching and Execution in CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and GitHub Actions
Abstract An automated test suite is the ultimate gatekeeper for your code, but if it takes 20 minutes to run, it destroys developer velocity. While my…
Why Snap CD: Non-invasive Orchestration
Most infrastructure CD tools ask you to change the way you write Terraform. Some require a proprietary wrapper CLI. Others impose a specific directory…
Questions to Ask a Mobile Dev Partner About Store Accounts, Release CI, and Handover
A question list for founders and tech leads before the contract is signed. The proposal lists features, design, and a twelve-week timeline. It says "A…
Shift-Left Meets AI: Catching Bugs Earlier with Predictive ML Models in Your Dev Pipeline
The Bug Tax Nobody Talks About A bug caught in production costs roughly 100× more to fix than the same bug caught at the requirements stage — a well-d…
Choosing a Testing Orchestration Tool: A Loyalty-Discount Module Tested Across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and CircleCI
Abstract Picking a CI tool is often treated as a branding decision, when it should be an engineering one. This article compares GitHub Actions , GitLa…
Splitting a Terraform Monolith into Smaller States
If your Terraform plans are slow, your blast radius is too wide, or multiple teams are stepping on each other's changes, it's time to split your monol…
When the agent codes in seconds, CI becomes the slow neighbour
Last week I caught myself doing something embarrassing. I asked an agent to scaffold a small handler, watched it return a tidy diff in roughly the tim…
Fix GitHub Copilot Terraform Security Risks Before They Hit Prod
Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud Copilot just autocompleted your security group with port 0–65535 open to the world — and terraform validate sai…
What Is DevOps? Everything You Need to Know in 2026
DevOps is not a tool. It is not a job title. It is not "developers doing ops work." DevOps is an engineering culture and set of practices that breaks …
Mastering DevOps Fundamentals: A Practical Guide
True DevOps mastery isn't about adopting specific tools or methodologies in isolation, but about deeply integrating cultural shifts with practical, of…
Docs as Code: Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Your Documentation
Your code has CI/CD. Your docs don't. Every modern engineering team has automated builds, tests, and deployments for their code. But documentation? Th…
DevSecOps Automation: A Deep Dive into SAST
In the era of Artificial Intelligence as a work buddy, it is imperative that security is enforced as development progresses. It could be tempting to t…
A Tiered Playwright E2E Strategy: From PR Smoke to Production Validation
A field write-up on a domain/feature-driven Playwright setup — the framework configuration, the tag strategy that ties tests to a test-management syst…
Meet AppPipe: The Lightweight, On-Premises Alternative to .NET Aspire
Modern cloud-native developer environments are fantastic. Frameworks like .NET Aspire have revolutionized local development by providing a unified dev…
CI gates for AI-generated PRs need re-derivable evidence
When a CI gate flags an AI-generated PR, the important question is not only "what did it flag?" It is also: "Could someone else come back later and re…