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Feature-Flag-Driven Trunk-Based Development

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Feature-Flag-Driven Trunk-Based Development

How feature flags make trunk-based development safe — decoupling deploy from release, short-lived branches, kill switches, and the flag hygiene that keeps it all from rotting.

Reusable Workflows vs Composite Actions in GitHub Actions

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Reusable Workflows vs Composite Actions in GitHub Actions

The two ways to stop copy-pasting CI YAML across repos, and the rule I use to pick between them.

Autoscaling GitHub Actions Runners on Kubernetes with ARC

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Autoscaling GitHub Actions Runners on Kubernetes with ARC

How I autoscale ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes with ARC — queue-driven scaling, scale-to-zero, dind vs kubernetes mode, and the settings that actually control cost.

Migrating to Grafana Alloy from Promtail and Agent

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Migrating to Grafana Alloy from Promtail and Agent

Promtail and Grafana Agent are both dead — here is how I moved a real Docker logging pipeline to Grafana Alloy, its OpenTelemetry Collector components, and the config syntax that replaces YAML.