CI/CD with GitHub Actions: A Pipeline That Actually Catches Bugs
Build a practical GitHub Actions pipeline from scratch — linting, tests, caching, matrix builds, and safe deploys — with the gotchas that waste an afternoon if you don't know them.
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Building & Shipping
Taking projects from idea to production — deployment, DevOps, and shipping real software.
5 articles
Environment Variables and Secrets: Stop Leaking Your Keys
A practical guide to managing configuration and secrets across local, CI, and production — .env files, the twelve-factor approach, secret managers, and the mistakes that leak keys to GitHub.
Docker for Developers: A Practical Guide to Containerization
Master Docker fundamentals with hands-on examples. Learn containers, images, volumes, networking, and Docker Compose for local development and production deployment.
Zero-Downtime Deployments: Shipping Without the Maintenance Page
How to deploy new code without dropping requests — health checks, rolling and blue-green strategies, backward-compatible migrations, and the database changes that quietly break everything.
Logging and Observability: Knowing What Your App Is Doing in Production
Structured logging, log levels, the three pillars of observability, and how to debug production issues you can't reproduce — without drowning in noise or leaking sensitive data.