DevOps & Platform Engineering

Questions

Common questions

What business value do CI/CD and platform engineering provide?

CI/CD and platform engineering make frequent, lower-risk releases the normal way of working. When build, test, deploy, and recovery are repeatable and visible, teams spend less effort on manual releases and see failures earlier. The platform should match the size of the team, so it supports delivery rather than becoming a project of its own.

What should a CI/CD pipeline include?

A useful pipeline builds, tests, and deploys code the same way every time, with a clear path to production and a way to roll back. Security checks for dependencies and configuration belong in that path, fitted to the team's release cadence so people do not bypass them. The pipeline should be documented well enough that more than one person can change it.

When is infrastructure as code worth adopting?

Adopt infrastructure as code when environments are changed by hand, undocumented, or drifting apart. Describing infrastructure in versioned files makes it reviewable, repeatable, and easier to recover. Start with the environments that cause the most release risk, rather than converting everything at once.

How should a team approach observability?

Give engineers logs, metrics, and traces that show what the system is doing before customers report it. Collect enough signal to diagnose real incidents, not a chart for every possible question. Alerts should match how the team actually responds, including who is on call and what they can do next.