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see you at #TestMu in 2 weeks!

visit our virtual booth and tell us how you're building + testing with agents 🤖

and if you haven't yet, register today. TestMu has over 60 sessions on QA, testing, CI/CD, agents, and more.

#QA #DevOps

How to Hide your Staging Environment from Search Engine Indexing | Shipyard You don’t want your staging environment to be publicly discoverable, or displace your production webpages when someone does a simple search. Here's how you can hide it.

here's how to apply these:

shipyard.build/blog/hide-st...

is your staging env showing up in search?

this is pretty common, esp if you carry the same site config from prod to staging

keep users away from your untested, WIP features:

1. 🔄 robots.txt
2. 🗑️ staging sitemap.xml
3. canonical ➡️ prod
4. HTTP auth
5. request🗑️Google

shipping faster doesn't necessarily mean you're in a better place, esp when you don't have the right processes/pipelines

how can you keep a good dev pace while being confident your code is bug-free?

join Benjie and Erin at #DPESummit in SF and find out!

@gradle.com #DevEx #DX

E2E Testing with Claude Code | Shipyard Claude Code can help make end-to-end (E2E) testing more approachable, especially when prompted through test-driven development (TDD). Here's how to write tests to guide your features, and how to set u...

shipyard.build/blog/e2e-tes...

we put claude code to the ultimate test: writing #E2E tests ✅

took some trial and error, but we got the best results from directing CC to use test-driven development

not surprising, as human devs often have the same experience with #TDD

we're joining our friends #LambdaTest on aug 19-21st for this year's #TestMu conf 🎉

looking forward to catching sessions on the latest + greatest in test automation 🔥

visit our virtual booth for good chat, games, and prizes!

#DevOps #testautomation #QA

DORA Community of Practice The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.

Join the #DORA Community tomorrow for a discussion about creating a practice of continuous improvement!

Nancy Barraza from Clara will be sharing some of her experiences and we'll have an open discussion.

Join the dora.community group for meeting details.

#community #GBGB #ContinuousImprovement

how do ephemeral envs prevent 🔥s in staging + prod?

1. they're isolated: they don't share services/data with other envs, so bug blast radius is contained

2. they shift test/review left: find + resolve bugs before they hit staging/prod

build more, firefight less!

#DevOps

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#GBGB #DORA

not so scary to deploy on friday (the 13th) when you have ephemeral environments!

nice that you deploy on fridays, but do you deploy on friday the 13th?

Moving from GitFlow to Trunk-Based Development | Shipyard Trunk-based development is a rapid git development model in which commits are pushed/integrated directly into the trunk (or main branch). Going from a branching model to TBD is a massive undertaking, ...

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trunk-based dev is a rapid git dev model: commits are pushed/integrated directly into the trunk, sans PRs/MRs

why?
🔘 merge conflicts--
🔘 cognitive load--
🔘 quality software++

going from a branching model to TBD is no small feat. it takes a combo of automation + teamwork:

@dora.dev #DevOps

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

The Docker Compose Test Environment Guide | Shipyard Here are some tips and tricks for using Compose in different ways across different environments, from local to production.

read our thoughts on it:

shipyard.build/blog/docker-...

one of the many reasons we ❤️ Docker Compose? it makes test env management easy

use it during dev, use it as an app def for a deployment, and use it to keep config consistent for every env in between

#DevOps #Docker @docker.com

Kubernetes README #SuggestedRead #devopsish chrisshort.net/kuber...

t-5 min: catch benjie's keynote at #DeveloperWeek Leadership 🎉

benjie will be keynoting #DeveloperWeek Leadership next Thursday 🎙️

tune in online to learn about the impact of developer happiness (+ good #DevEx) on @dora.dev metrics

we're gearing up to meet the #Baltimore DevOps community at DevOpsDays Baltimore 🦀

looking forward to a jam-packed two days of excellent sessions and open spaces.

don't miss Natalie's lightning talk on trunk-based development on Wednesday afternoon 👀

#DevOps #SRE #Platform

Local-first CI/CD with Makefiles | Shipyard Continuous integration isn’t something that needs to be restricted to remote pipelines. You can get a lot more mileage out of your CI/CD pipelines if you begin integration locally. That's where Makefi...

here's how:

shipyard.build/blog/local-f...

since '76, the #Makefile spec has made build workflows easy

don't build out your #CICD logic in your pipeline, treat it as a wrapper for your build/test/deploy steps. and your makefile can be your SSOT for local and remote workflows

#DevOps #devtools #testautomation

when you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, how often is it actually correct? not quite often enough for you to take its output as 100% factual...

that’s where #vibecoding becomes a liability

here's how you can test your vibe coding + trust every deploy

shipyard.build/blog/ephemer...

#DevOps

I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.

Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.

DORA Community of Practice The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.

Code reviews painful? 😩 Huge PRs, weak feedback?
Let's fix it! Join the DORA Community this Thurs w/ @abt.bsky.social, author of "Looks Good To Me".

🗓️ This Thursday, 9AM PT!
🔗 Join the mailing list for details - dora.community

#CodeReview #DevOps #DORACommunity

How to Measure DORA Change Fail Rate | Shipyard Change fail rate (CFR) is one of the four key DORA metrics. DORA usually counts change fail rate as the percentage of production code changes that introduce a bug or regression over the total number o...

here's how you can start:

shipyard.build/blog/measure...

#GBGB #DevOps

change fail rate is one of the 4 key @dora.dev metrics. CFR represents how often a change to prod doesn’t perform as expected, or introduces a bug

remember: measuring CFR is the first step to improving it

#GBGB #DevOps