Inside the Trenches of CI/CD
Stories, insights, and opinions from the team behind Mergify

Julien Danjou
November 27, 2025
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Run only the tests that matter in your monorepo. Mergify Monorepo CI detects which parts of your repo each pull request touches and triggers the right GitHub Actions jobs, then aggregates them into a single CI gate for branch protection or Merge Queue.

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Detecting Blocking Tasks in Asyncio by Measuring Event Loop Latency
CI/CD promises speed, automation, and confidence. But if you’ve ever stared at a red pipeline for hours, battled flaky tests, or deployed a “fully tested” build that still broke production—you know there’s a lot more to it.
Tomasz Biernacki

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Detecting Blocking Tasks in Asyncio by Measuring Event Loop Latency
CI/CD promises speed, automation, and confidence. But if you’ve ever stared at a red pipeline for hours, battled flaky tests, or deployed a “fully tested” build that still broke production—you know there’s a lot more to it.
Tomasz Biernacki

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GitHub Merge Queue Was Step One. Real CI Orchestration Comes Next.
CI/CD promises speed, automation, and confidence. But if you’ve ever stared at a red pipeline for hours, battled flaky tests, or deployed a “fully tested” build that still broke production—you know there’s a lot more to it.
Tomasz Biernacki
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