CI/CD
Pipelines that are fast enough to trust: build and test times measured, caches that work, deployments that are reversible, and GitOps delivery that keeps git describing what runs.
The pipeline is the slowest part of the day
A twenty-minute build turns review into batching, batching turns into bigger changes, and bigger changes turn into riskier deploys. Meanwhile the deploy itself is a button nobody fully understands, and the answer to "what is in production right now" involves opening three tabs.
What we do
- Measure first: where the time actually goes, per stage, before touching anything.
- Caching that survives a cold runner, dependency layers that do not invalidate on every commit, and test parallelism that is worth its coordination cost.
- Deployments that can be reversed in one step, and that record what was deployed, by whom and from which commit.
- GitOps delivery with Argo CD or Flux where it fits — so the repository remains an accurate description of production rather than an aspiration.
- Pipeline cost as a first-class number: runner minutes are a line on the bill and are usually the cheapest thing on it to halve.
How the work goes
- 01
Measure
A week of pipeline telemetry: stage durations, cache hit rates, queue time, failure reasons. Most teams are surprised by which stage is actually the problem.
- 02
Cut
The changes with the best ratio of minutes saved to risk introduced, applied in order, each one measured against the same baseline.
- 03
Make it reversible
Rollback rehearsed, not assumed. A deploy you have never reversed is a deploy you cannot reverse under pressure.
What you get
- Before/after timings per stage, from the same measurement
- Pipeline definitions in your repository, reviewed by your team
- A rehearsed rollback procedure with the steps written down
A good fit when
- Teams whose build time has crept past the point of patience
- Anyone who deploys by hand because the automation is not trusted
Not us, and we will say so
- Replacing your CI vendor as an end in itself — we will usually make the current one faster instead
Tell us what you are running.
A first call is a conversation. If this is not the service you need, we will point you at the one that is — or tell you that you do not need us yet.
Book a call