Code, Noted

Delivery

9 articles

· 1 min read

On the monthly availability report

GitHub's July report lists eight incidents, and seven of them were changes and expiries rather than code. A note on the institution of publishing your own ledger.

#reliability#incidents#institutions

· 3 min read

Ten hours without CI

GitHub Actions failed for ten hours and forty-two minutes on August 6. Read as an instrument, the outage measured every pipeline that runs through it.

#delivery#incidents#ci

· 3 min read

The upgrade nobody rushes

Postgres 18 shipped in September to the usual absence of panic. On release discipline as an institution, and what the calmest corner of infrastructure teaches.

#postgres#upgrades#operations

· 2 min read

DevOps, fifteen years on

The word conquered the industry and dissolved into it. An audit of what the movement actually changed, what it renamed, and what it quietly gave up.

#delivery#devops#history

· 2 min read

Feature-freeze archaeology

A change freeze is an accidental experiment. What the exemption list, filed in order of arrival, reveals about an organization's real architecture.

#change-control#organizations

· 2 min read

Release trains and their discontents

The release train solved a 2005 problem and still runs on schedule in organizations whose problem changed a decade ago. When the train helps, and when it is theater.

#delivery#release-management#process

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In praise of boring deploys

The most sophisticated thing a delivery pipeline can be is uninteresting. On boredom as an engineering achievement with a bill of materials.

#delivery#deploys#reliability