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Release Orchestration: A Practical Guide for 2025
2025-09-274

A structured introduction to release orchestration: core concepts, roles, tools, and metrics that enable predictable, zero-downtime releases.

Release Management
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
SRE
Release Orchestration Learning Path
2025-09-2714

A step-by-step curriculum for engineers and tech leads: fundamentals, tools, patterns, practices, books, and hands-on projects.

Learning Path
Practices
DevOps
SRE
Overview of Release Orchestration Approaches
2025-09-277

A comparison of manual releases, script automation, CI/CD platforms, and GitOps — and when each approach works best.

Comparison
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
Incremental Constraints: How Small Rules Change Team Culture
2025-09-0316

From fragile legacy code to a healthy engineering culture — how one team used incremental constraints like test coverage, performance checks, and security scans to turn chaos into quality.

Team Culture
Technical Debt
Continuous Improvement
Testing
DevOps
Database Schema Evolution: Safe DB Evolution Principles in Rails
2025-09-0117

Forward-only migrations, expand–contract pattern, online DDL, dual-write models, monitoring, and disaster recovery — a practical guide to evolving Rails database schemas without downtime.

Rails
PostgreSQL
Migrations
Zero Downtime
DevOps
Feature Flags (Feature Toggles) in Simple Terms
2025-05-0310

Learn how feature flags work, why they're needed, and how to implement them in your applications. Discover how to enable safe releases, quick rollbacks, A/B testing, and flexible configuration without code changes.

Feature Flags
DevOps
AWS
A/B Testing
Software Development