How we cut runner startup from 2-3 minutes to under 30 seconds using SOCI and an NVMe hostPath cache, without bloating our standby runner pool.
SRE and platform engineer. I write about infrastructure, platform engineering, and what it actually takes to run systems in production.
The floor, not the ceiling
Three attempts. Three different ways in. One lesson about how work actually gets done.
Good ideas don’t ship on merit
Four years of CI, two market cycles, and the thing we still haven’t solved