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The Pragmatic Engineer

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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Not everything has to be end to end GitOps. Rob Erez, principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, on GitOps absolutism: “What we see is a lot of people go to conferences or they read blog posts and they hear that GitOps is what you should do. What I want to point out here is GitOps is
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 23
The keynote video from Craft Conference, titled "Slow down to speed up: what changed in the last 6 months for software engineering" is now available to view. Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/5wks1W-auKY Or read the extended summary in today's issue: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/slow-down-to…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 23
How to get into Progressive Delivery? Rob Erez(@no_erez), principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, on the value of being able to switch a feature back off: #1 - Start with one feature flag “So start with adding one feature. It may be scary at first to kind of go, oh, it's in
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 23
Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 22
Ephemeral environments: what are they, and why are they more popular? Rob Erez(@no_erez), principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, explains: "What we're seeing is more the growth of things like ephemeral environments. And so this is the idea that I, as an engineer, am running some
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 22
Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 21
Product quality comes from doing irrational things. Dax Raad(@thdxr), creator of OpenCode, on how quality is a constant practice, not a decision: “It's easier than ever to rot your product, with these agents and everything. You see it with big companies. Big companies'
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 21
Learn more about building OpenCode with Dax Raad on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/1VqKUrxR2C8 • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/10Invd… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bui… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/opencode
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 20
Kubernetes clusters out at open sea. Rob Erez(@no_erez), principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, shares how on premise ‘on prem’ can get: "When we talk about small computers, some of our customers have Kubernetes clusters basically in their point of sale systems. So they have
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 20
Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 19
Don’t do a rollback: instead, roll forward! Rob Erez(@no_erez) - principal engineer and Gergely’s former colleague at Skype - on why 'just roll back' is mostly luck: "Rollbacks. This is always a spicy one. We get a lot of customers who say, why don't you have a rollback button?
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 19
Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 18
Does CI/CD pipeline speed matter with AI? Rob Erez(@no_erez), principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, on why thoroughness outweighs speed when agents are babysitting the build: “One of the things you often talk about when there's a human element to the pipeline is speeding up the
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 18
Learn more about software delivery at scale with Rob Erez on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/2x0eq5oDOJY • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0U7Cod… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ci-… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cicd-with-ro…
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Gergely Orosz
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Jun 17
How is CI/CD changing because of AI, and what are sensible deployment practices more teams should be doing? Robert Erez is a CI/CD expert, and also my former teammate at Skype. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:09 Canary deployments at Skype 05:01 Joining at Octopus Deploy 06:15
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 17
Why do some devs fight the borrow checker in Rust? Alice Ryhl, Rust for Android at Google & Tokio maintainer, on why the solution is usually to change the data structure. “When you write some code that uses the object in a way that doesn't follow the rules I mentioned - that's a
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 17
Learn how Rust is different with Alice Ryhl on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/q9xD36NCtZ8 • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0iReyy… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-rust-is-…
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 16
Rust RFCs propose features as if they already existed. Alice Ryhl, Rust for Android at Google & Tokio maintainer, on answering every question before it gets asked: “You write this doc and it has a template, and I think it's actually a pretty good template. The first section is
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The Pragmatic Engineer
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Jun 16
Learn how Rust is different with Alice Ryhl on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: • YouTube: youtu.be/q9xD36NCtZ8 • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0iReyy… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why… • Summary and transcript: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-rust-is-…
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