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Jul 5, 202610 min read

CI/CD Pipelines for Data Engineers

Data pipelines are production software. Here's how to build CI/CD that catches bad transforms before they corrupt dashboards: testing strategy, environment promotion, slim runs, and rollback patterns.

devops data-engineering

Jun 26, 20267 min read

Feature Flags: How to Stop Coupling Deployment to Release

Shipping code and releasing a feature are different events that most teams accidentally fuse together. Feature flags split them — and unlock trunk-based development, safe rollouts, and instant rollback.

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Apr 24, 20265 min read

OpenTelemetry in .NET: Distributed Tracing Without Vendor Lock-In

Instrument your .NET services once with OpenTelemetry and ship traces to Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, or Azure Monitor — all without changing application code.

devops

Sep 8, 20259 min read

Monitoring What Matters: Setting Up Alerts That Don't Cry Wolf

Most alerting setups produce noise that teams learn to ignore. Here is how to design alerts around the four golden signals, set thresholds that mean something, and build a system where every alert is worth waking someone up for.

devops tutorial

Aug 11, 20257 min read

The Incident That Taught Me to Never Skip Staging — A Production Outage Story

A first-person account of a production outage caused by skipping staging. The small fix, the cascading failure, the 3am scramble, and the process changes that followed.

devops

Jun 16, 20256 min read

Building a Zero-Downtime Deployment Pipeline with Azure DevOps and Slot Swaps

How to build a deployment pipeline that swaps staging and production slots on Azure App Service — with smoke tests, warm-up, rollback strategy, and a real YAML pipeline you can steal.

devops tutorial

May 19, 20257 min read

Infrastructure as Code with Bicep: Moving Beyond ARM Templates

ARM templates are painful. Bicep fixes the developer experience with cleaner syntax, modules, and first-class Azure CLI integration. Here is how to migrate and start using it in your CI/CD pipelines.

devops tutorial

Apr 18, 20223 min read

Fixing 'PowerShell Script Not Digitally Signed' — The Right Way

How to resolve execution policy errors when running .ps1 scripts, and why you should care about script signing in 2026.

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