Tag: CI/CD

Career & Growth Jun 26, 2026 • 2 min read

Stop Softening Your CV: Why Your Non-Western Background Is Your Competitive Edge

I was reviewing my CV last month, about six years into remote work, when I noticed something that made me cringe. I'd written "collaborated with distributed teams across multiple time zones" for a project where I'd actually been the only developer keeping a production system aliv...

Read More →

CI/CD

DevOps & Cloud Jun 24, 2026 • 4 min read

I've Been Deploying Wrong: Why Your Production Server Shouldn't Think Like a Developer

Three months ago, I got paged at 2 AM because a deployment failed with a cryptic Git error. My first instinct? Blame Git. My second instinct? Panic. But the real culprit wasn't Git being broken, it was me being careless about how I thought about production deployments.

Read More →

Git CI/CD

DevOps & Cloud Jun 23, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Patching Everything: Why Your CVSS Score Means Nothing Without Context

I spent three hours last Tuesday patching a "critical" vulnerability on a development database that nobody uses. It was a 9.2 severity score, so obviously it had to be done immediately. Our security team flagged it, the alert system screamed, and I went into emergency mode. By th...

Read More →

CI/CD

Web Development Jun 20, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Finally Taking Feature Flags Seriously (And You Should Too)

Last month, I deployed a feature to production without being able to see if it was actually working. My client's infrastructure team deployed it, stakeholders tested it somewhere I couldn't access, and when something broke, I had to wait days for someone to send me screenshots. T...

Read More →

UI Design CI/CD

Web Development Jun 10, 2026 • 4 min read

The Mock That Lies to Your Face: Why I'm Moving Away From WireMock

I learned something humbling last month at 2 AM during a production incident. My order service was calling a payment gateway that had silently changed its API response field names. My entire test suite was green. My mocks were working perfectly. The real service? Completely broke...

Read More →

Python CI/CD

DevOps & Cloud Jun 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Fighting Kubernetes UIs (and Why You Should Care)

Last year, I was debugging a pod crash in production at 11 PM and found myself switching between the Kubernetes Dashboard and kubectl because the Dashboard couldn't show me the full picture across our two clusters. I remember thinking: "This tool was fine when we had one cluster...

Read More →

AWS UI Design