DevOps & CI/CD
Automated build, test, and deploy pipelines that ship code faster.
What we actually fix
The pattern we see most: a startup with a manual release process that worked at 3 engineers and is now breaking at 15. Or a growing company whose CI runs for 40 minutes per PR and everyone runs git push --no-verify to escape it. Or production deploys that require six people in a war-room channel.
The fixes are mostly mechanical:
- CI under 10 minutes. Cache dependencies, parallelise tests, use matrix builds. Anything over 15 minutes degrades developer behavior.
- Staging that matches prod. IaC for both means staging actually catches production issues.
- Progressive delivery. Canary deploys, feature flags, automatic rollback on error-rate spike. The deploy stops being scary.
- One-command rollback. If your rollback procedure has more than three steps, it’ll fail at 2am.
When this fits
You’re shipping less often than you should because deploys are stressful. Or your platform team is two people drowning in manual work. Or you’re growing past the point where “we’ll set up DevOps later” still flies.
Questions about DevOps & CI/CD.
Smaller than you think. We typically wire up basic GitHub Actions CI in week one (lint, test, build a versioned artifact), then move deploys to either container-based (push image → ECS/Kubernetes/Fly.io) or platform-managed (Vercel, Render, Railway). Most teams are on automated deploys within 2–3 weeks.
Probably not. Kubernetes is right for: multi-service apps with complex networking, teams of 20+ engineers, or workloads that benefit from per-pod scaling. For most startups, a managed platform (Fly.io, Render, ECS Fargate) ships faster and costs less to operate. We tell you what fits.
Standard CD pushes to environments from your CI job. GitOps reverses this: your Git repo is the source of truth, and ArgoCD/Flux constantly reconciles cluster state to match the repo. Benefits: every deploy is a Git commit (auditable), drift detection is automatic, and rollback is just a revert. Right for Kubernetes shops with multiple environments.
We bake these into CI: Trivy / Grype for container scanning, GitHub Advanced Security or Semgrep for SAST, dependency scanning via Dependabot or Renovate, secret scanning with gitleaks. Findings gate the deploy or get triaged into a backlog — your choice on policy.
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