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Deployment, done plainly.
Comparison guides, deployment tutorials and field notes. New posts every two weeks.
Aug 22, 2025 · 4 min read
Zero-downtime deploys without Kubernetes
A symlink swap and a 500ms nginx reload handle zero-downtime for small teams. The Kubernetes tutorial is for a different problem.
deployment Aug 14, 2025 · 4 min read
Why does my deploy take 4 minutes?
A slow deploy is almost always three fast steps stuck waiting on one quiet one. Here's how I found the quiet one in my own pipeline.
deployment Aug 5, 2025 · 4 min read
Your deploy script is a liability
The bespoke deploy.sh sitting in your repo is the largest undocumented dependency the project has. Rewriting it once a year is cheaper than debugging it once.
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