Keeping the agile in ‘agile engineering’
Being agile means flexibility. Let’s discuss engineering techniques for your team, using the Agile Manifesto as a guide.
Daniel Oakley
Optimize your CI/CD by moving to Kubernetes
Can Kubernetes hypercharge your CI/CD pipeline? Here are some ways to leverage Kubernetes to bring greater reliability and scalability to your deployments.
Mel Kaulfuss
Retrying CI/CD steps when Spot Instances terminate
AWS Spot Instances lower cloud costs, but also stop at any time. Bring them into your CI infrastructure without sacrificing pipeline efficiency.
Daniel Oakley
How Rippling reduced CI/CD costs by 50% with AWS Spot Instances
Spot Instances can help you reduce costs, but require careful management. Discover the challenges and solutions Rippling found when migrating.
Michael Belton
Monorepo vs. polyrepo: How to choose
Which build pattern will work best for you? A breakdown of how to make the choice between monorepo vs. polyrepo approaches to CI.
Mel Kaulfuss
Secure your CI/CD pipelines with clear boundaries
Learn how to protect your pipelines and infrastructure. Create and enforce security boundaries to prevent unsafe actions by your pipelines and agents.
Daniel Oakley
Incident reviews: Looking beyond the root cause
Simplify, but don't oversimplify. Allow for nuance and complexity in post-incident reviews by using the Cynefin framework and telling stories.
Patrick Robinson and Michael Belton
Featured posts
Managed, self-hosted, or hybrid CI/CD? Understand your options
Choosing a CI/CD tool can be daunting, but considering where you want the pipeline to run is an excellent place to start—see how the options compare.
Michael Belton
Buildkite or Jenkins: Choosing the right tool for you
A detailed comparison of Buildkite & Jenkins, understand how Buildkite improves on many of Jenkins' great features with added flexibility, & control.
Michael Belton
The power of Dynamic Pipelines
CI/CD pipelines are the superhighway for your software–sometimes you need more than a one-size-fits-all. Enter, dynamic pipelines!
Mel Kaulfuss
Customer stories
How Rippling used Spot instances to save and scale CI/CD
See how we were able to use Spot Instances to save on infrastructure costs.
rippling.com ↗
Better Android Testing at Airbnb—Part 7: Test Generation and CI
In the final installment of our series on Android Testing at Airbnb we dive into our CI setup and share thoughts on where we are going next.
medium.com ↗
How our Rails test suite runs in 1 minute on Buildkite
Learn how we use minitest and FactoryBot with parallel tests to get our Rails test suite to run in 1 minute on Buildkite.
planetscale.com ↗