Niagara's Big Red Button
November 08, 2023The origin story of my first button to shutdown a system.
Written by @sghill, who works on build, automated change, and continuous integration systems.
Empowering Users with Build Agent History
November 01, 2023How support questions turn into high-leverage features.
Declarative Confidence
October 25, 2023Can our systems build confidence from config alone?
Paged
January 22, 2023What is it like to get paged?
Build Airplane Ashtrays
January 03, 2023Build ashtrays when you cannot prevent or fully support uses of your platform.
Smoke Testing Plans
June 08, 2022Do our plans pass a quick time check when considering implicit commitments?
De-Risking Jenkins Rollouts
May 21, 2022A walkthrough of our Jenkins 2.332.x upgrade, including plugin risk assessment and mitigation.
Bets
May 09, 2022When plans fail repeatedly there are often better bets to make.
Tailor-Made Workflows
April 28, 2022By designing development workflows for the work, we can make the output high-quality by default.
Simple Tools for Sustained Progress
April 23, 2022The story of Jenkins Plugin Skew. Observe reliably to make consistent progress with big problems.
Impact Framing
April 16, 2022Deciding against work that aligns with your values is difficult, but blindly saying yes is worse.