CI/CD Pipeline Design Patterns That Scale Past 100 Engineers
The CI/CD pipeline that works for ten engineers starts breaking in specific ways as your team grows. Here’s how to design for scale from the beginning.
Monorepos in 2026: The Tooling Has Finally Caught Up
Monorepos have been the right architectural choice for years. The tooling problems that made them painful are largely solved. Here’s the current state of the art.
Secrets Management: The Part of Security Everyone Ignores Until It’s a Breach
Secrets in environment variables, secrets in git history, secrets in Slack messages. The most common security failure in modern applications isn’t sophisticated — it’s preventable.
The Database Migration Strategy That Doesn’t Take Down Your Production System
Schema migrations are one of the riskiest operations in production systems. Here’s the expand/contract pattern that makes them safe and reversible.
Feature Flags: The Infrastructure Every Team Should Have Before Shipping New Features
Feature flags change the risk profile of software deployment from binary (in/out) to gradual. Here’s how to implement them and how they change your deployment process.
The Technical Debt Register: Making Invisible Problems Visible
Technical debt that isn’t tracked doesn’t get paid down. Here’s the lightweight system that makes debt visible without creating a bureaucratic overhead.