Automation

Articles, guides and tutorials on software automation, covering CI/CD pipelines, test automation and workflow automation for development teams.

Postmortems That Actually Change Something

Why most incident reviews produce action items nobody completes, what a useful timeline contains, and how to make the follow-up actually happen.

Where dependency risk actually comes from, which controls repay the effort at small scale, and what an SBOM does and does not tell you.

Why documentation goes stale, the four documents actually worth maintaining, and how to write for somebody who is tired and in a hurry.

Why new developers take months to become useful, what to fix first, and the single metric that tells you whether your onboarding actually works.

What three nines allows in minutes, why service credits are not compensation, and the clauses that decide whether an SLA protects you at all.

What RPO and RTO mean in practice, why an untested backup is not a backup, and a recovery plan that fits on a single page.

Why high coverage still ships bugs, which tests earn their maintenance cost, and how to build a suite a team trusts enough to deploy on a Friday.

How Cloudflare Queues works, what an operation really costs, the limits that decide whether it fits, and when a queue is the wrong answer entirely.

What AI agents cost a UK business, why most pilots stall between demo and production, and which disclosure rules now apply to customer-facing agents.

CRM and ERP integration explained: the four methods that work, what each costs, and why deciding which system owns a field matters most.