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

Dec 2, 2025
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9 min
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Lessons From a Noisy Monitor
Your database monitors keep firing even though nothing is wrong? We hit the same problem: noisy IOPS alerts caused by predictable jobs. This post explains how we replaced brittle thresholds with an SLO-based approach that restored signal, eliminated noise, and stopped the monitor from "crying wolf."

Julian Maurin

Dec 2, 2025
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9 min
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Lessons From a Noisy Monitor
Your database monitors keep firing even though nothing is wrong? We hit the same problem: noisy IOPS alerts caused by predictable jobs. This post explains how we replaced brittle thresholds with an SLO-based approach that restored signal, eliminated noise, and stopped the monitor from "crying wolf."

Julian Maurin

Dec 2, 2025
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9 min
read
Lessons From a Noisy Monitor
Your database monitors keep firing even though nothing is wrong? We hit the same problem: noisy IOPS alerts caused by predictable jobs. This post explains how we replaced brittle thresholds with an SLO-based approach that restored signal, eliminated noise, and stopped the monitor from "crying wolf."

Julian Maurin

Dec 2, 2025
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9 min
read
Lessons From a Noisy Monitor
Your database monitors keep firing even though nothing is wrong? We hit the same problem: noisy IOPS alerts caused by predictable jobs. This post explains how we replaced brittle thresholds with an SLO-based approach that restored signal, eliminated noise, and stopped the monitor from "crying wolf."

Julian Maurin

Nov 25, 2025
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7 min
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await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs Tasks
Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 25, 2025
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7 min
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await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs Tasks
Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 25, 2025
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7 min
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await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs Tasks
Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 25, 2025
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7 min
read
await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs Tasks
Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 19, 2025
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4 min
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Updating Materialized Views (Without Worrying Too Much)
Materialized views are powerful but painful to change. Here’s how we safely version, refresh, and migrate them without locking production or timing out deployments, plus the approach we use to avoid dangerous DROP/CREATE migrations.

Rémy Duthu

Nov 19, 2025
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4 min
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Updating Materialized Views (Without Worrying Too Much)
Materialized views are powerful but painful to change. Here’s how we safely version, refresh, and migrate them without locking production or timing out deployments, plus the approach we use to avoid dangerous DROP/CREATE migrations.

Rémy Duthu

Nov 19, 2025
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4 min
read
Updating Materialized Views (Without Worrying Too Much)
Materialized views are powerful but painful to change. Here’s how we safely version, refresh, and migrate them without locking production or timing out deployments, plus the approach we use to avoid dangerous DROP/CREATE migrations.

Rémy Duthu

Nov 19, 2025
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4 min
read
Updating Materialized Views (Without Worrying Too Much)
Materialized views are powerful but painful to change. Here’s how we safely version, refresh, and migrate them without locking production or timing out deployments, plus the approach we use to avoid dangerous DROP/CREATE migrations.

Rémy Duthu

Nov 17, 2025
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5 min
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Goodbye Checklists, Hello AI Linters
We turned our pull request rules into small AI-powered linters using GitHub’s new actions/ai-inference. Each linter enforces one rule: catching risky changes before humans do, without regexes, static analysis, or friction.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 17, 2025
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5 min
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Goodbye Checklists, Hello AI Linters
We turned our pull request rules into small AI-powered linters using GitHub’s new actions/ai-inference. Each linter enforces one rule: catching risky changes before humans do, without regexes, static analysis, or friction.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 17, 2025
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5 min
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Goodbye Checklists, Hello AI Linters
We turned our pull request rules into small AI-powered linters using GitHub’s new actions/ai-inference. Each linter enforces one rule: catching risky changes before humans do, without regexes, static analysis, or friction.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 17, 2025
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5 min
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Goodbye Checklists, Hello AI Linters
We turned our pull request rules into small AI-powered linters using GitHub’s new actions/ai-inference. Each linter enforces one rule: catching risky changes before humans do, without regexes, static analysis, or friction.

Mehdi Abaakouk

Nov 6, 2025
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8 min
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Origin and Evolution of the Globstar
Discover how the double-asterisk recursive glob pattern evolved: from Zsh’s early 1990s innovation to Bash’s globstar and beyond, spreading into Python, Ruby, Git, and modern build tools.

Julien Danjou

Nov 6, 2025
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8 min
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Origin and Evolution of the Globstar
Discover how the double-asterisk recursive glob pattern evolved: from Zsh’s early 1990s innovation to Bash’s globstar and beyond, spreading into Python, Ruby, Git, and modern build tools.

Julien Danjou

Nov 6, 2025
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8 min
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Origin and Evolution of the Globstar
Discover how the double-asterisk recursive glob pattern evolved: from Zsh’s early 1990s innovation to Bash’s globstar and beyond, spreading into Python, Ruby, Git, and modern build tools.

Julien Danjou

Nov 6, 2025
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8 min
read
Origin and Evolution of the Globstar
Discover how the double-asterisk recursive glob pattern evolved: from Zsh’s early 1990s innovation to Bash’s globstar and beyond, spreading into Python, Ruby, Git, and modern build tools.

Julien Danjou

Nov 5, 2025
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5 min
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Shadow Shipping: How We Double-Executed Code to Ship Safely
How do you ship risky code without crossing your fingers? In this post, we explain how he ran old and new logic in parallel (“shadow shipping”) to validate behavior in production before rollout. Learn how this simple pattern turned feature-flag anxiety into data-driven confidence.

Julian Maurin

Nov 5, 2025
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5 min
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Shadow Shipping: How We Double-Executed Code to Ship Safely
How do you ship risky code without crossing your fingers? In this post, we explain how he ran old and new logic in parallel (“shadow shipping”) to validate behavior in production before rollout. Learn how this simple pattern turned feature-flag anxiety into data-driven confidence.

Julian Maurin

Nov 5, 2025
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5 min
read
Shadow Shipping: How We Double-Executed Code to Ship Safely
How do you ship risky code without crossing your fingers? In this post, we explain how he ran old and new logic in parallel (“shadow shipping”) to validate behavior in production before rollout. Learn how this simple pattern turned feature-flag anxiety into data-driven confidence.

Julian Maurin

Nov 5, 2025
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5 min
read
Shadow Shipping: How We Double-Executed Code to Ship Safely
How do you ship risky code without crossing your fingers? In this post, we explain how he ran old and new logic in parallel (“shadow shipping”) to validate behavior in production before rollout. Learn how this simple pattern turned feature-flag anxiety into data-driven confidence.

Julian Maurin

Oct 29, 2025
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6 min
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Why PostgreSQL Ignored Our Index (and What the Planner Was Thinking)
PostgreSQL doesn’t "ignore" your indexes, it just does the math differently. We dive into how the planner weighs cost, why it sometimes chooses sequential scans, and how we tuned our queries to make peace with it.

Fabien Martinet

Oct 29, 2025
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6 min
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Why PostgreSQL Ignored Our Index (and What the Planner Was Thinking)
PostgreSQL doesn’t "ignore" your indexes, it just does the math differently. We dive into how the planner weighs cost, why it sometimes chooses sequential scans, and how we tuned our queries to make peace with it.

Fabien Martinet

Oct 29, 2025
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6 min
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Why PostgreSQL Ignored Our Index (and What the Planner Was Thinking)
PostgreSQL doesn’t "ignore" your indexes, it just does the math differently. We dive into how the planner weighs cost, why it sometimes chooses sequential scans, and how we tuned our queries to make peace with it.

Fabien Martinet

Oct 29, 2025
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6 min
read
Why PostgreSQL Ignored Our Index (and What the Planner Was Thinking)
PostgreSQL doesn’t "ignore" your indexes, it just does the math differently. We dive into how the planner weighs cost, why it sometimes chooses sequential scans, and how we tuned our queries to make peace with it.

Fabien Martinet

Oct 23, 2025
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5 min
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The Magic (and Mayhem) Behind Our Config Deprecation Transformers
We built a "self-healing" system that fixes deprecated configs by opening PRs automatically. It worked like magic, until it didn't. Here's what we learned about the thin line between elegant automation and uncontrollable complexity.

Guillaume Risbourg

Oct 23, 2025
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5 min
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The Magic (and Mayhem) Behind Our Config Deprecation Transformers
We built a "self-healing" system that fixes deprecated configs by opening PRs automatically. It worked like magic, until it didn't. Here's what we learned about the thin line between elegant automation and uncontrollable complexity.

Guillaume Risbourg

Oct 23, 2025
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5 min
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The Magic (and Mayhem) Behind Our Config Deprecation Transformers
We built a "self-healing" system that fixes deprecated configs by opening PRs automatically. It worked like magic, until it didn't. Here's what we learned about the thin line between elegant automation and uncontrollable complexity.

Guillaume Risbourg

Oct 23, 2025
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5 min
read
The Magic (and Mayhem) Behind Our Config Deprecation Transformers
We built a "self-healing" system that fixes deprecated configs by opening PRs automatically. It worked like magic, until it didn't. Here's what we learned about the thin line between elegant automation and uncontrollable complexity.

Guillaume Risbourg

Oct 22, 2025
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7 min
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TypeScript's import type: The Flag That Makes Builds Honest
TypeScript doesn’t run your code, but your bundler might think it does. Learn why marking your type imports with import type (and enabling `verbatimModuleSyntax`) makes your builds faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

Alexandre Gaubert

Oct 22, 2025
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7 min
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TypeScript's import type: The Flag That Makes Builds Honest
TypeScript doesn’t run your code, but your bundler might think it does. Learn why marking your type imports with import type (and enabling `verbatimModuleSyntax`) makes your builds faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

Alexandre Gaubert

Oct 22, 2025
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7 min
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TypeScript's import type: The Flag That Makes Builds Honest
TypeScript doesn’t run your code, but your bundler might think it does. Learn why marking your type imports with import type (and enabling `verbatimModuleSyntax`) makes your builds faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

Alexandre Gaubert

Oct 22, 2025
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7 min
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TypeScript's import type: The Flag That Makes Builds Honest
TypeScript doesn’t run your code, but your bundler might think it does. Learn why marking your type imports with import type (and enabling `verbatimModuleSyntax`) makes your builds faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

Alexandre Gaubert
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