Release-engineering
Design Rollback Strategies That Make Friday Deploys Boring
Learn how to create effective rollback strategies that minimize risk and maximize confidence during deployments.
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Modernisation stories, implementation playbooks, and AI delivery guidance from consultants who stabilise production systems every week.
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High-impact reads that engineering and product leaders share with their teams.
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Eliminating Developer Friction: A Path to High-Performance Teams
Measure and eliminate sources of wait and hand-off time to enhance developer productivity.
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Cutting CI Flake: A Path to Accelerated Feedback Loops
Reduce CI flakiness and pipeline time to enhance your team's feedback loops and reliability.
Latest essays
Weekly perspectives on stabilising AI-assisted codebases with measurable outcomes.
- Design Rollback Strategies That Make Friday Deploys BoringIn today's high-stakes environment, deploying changes without a solid rollback strategy can lead to catastrophic failures. This article outlines how to design rollback strategies that ensure your team can deploy confidently, reducing change
- Eliminating Developer Friction: A Path to High-Performance TeamsIn today’s fast-paced tech world, reducing developer friction is critical. By identifying and addressing the top sources of wait and hand-off time, engineering leaders can drive significant improvements in productivity and efficiency.
- Cutting CI Flake: A Path to Accelerated Feedback LoopsIn today's fast-paced development environment, CI/CD pipelines are the backbone of rapid delivery. Yet, CI flakiness can cost you not just time, but also trust and revenue. This article outlines actionable strategies to reduce CI flakiness,
- Designing an Evaluation Harness for Generative AIThis article outlines the critical steps to implement an evaluation harness for generative AI, ensuring accountability through instrumentation, observability, and safety guardrails.
- Stabilizing AI-Assisted Applications: A Case Study with GitPlumbersThis case study reveals how GitPlumbers stabilized an AI-assisted application that faced significant operational challenges, resulting in measurable improvements in reliability and customer satisfaction.
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Operational habits, rituals, and leadership frameworks that keep teams shipping.
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Ship AI-assisted code safely with observability, guardrails, and accountability.
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Modernisation wins
See how enterprises cleared debt, scaled safely, and hit aggressive deadlines.
Meridian Health · Healthcare Platform
Stabilising A Healthcare Angular Monolith
Meridian Health partnered with GitPlumbers to stabilise a compliance-critical Angular platform. By addressing state management, testing, and rollout discipline in parallel, the team eliminated emergency freezes and hit every audit milestone.
- 72%fewer production incidents after guardrails were deployed.
- 4xincrease in deploy frequency without expanding the team.
- 0regulatory violations during the next audit cycle.
Northstar Systems · SaaS Infrastructure
Scaling A Multi-tenant React Platform
Northstar Systems engaged GitPlumbers to stabilise a federated React platform. The team combined telemetry, module federation, and progressive delivery to unlock tenant growth without compromising reliability.
- 68%reduction in cold start latency for premium tenants.
- 18ptincrease in enterprise NPS after the rollout.
- 100%of releases shipped with automated rollback coverage.
Guides to keep handy
Battle-tested frameworks for teams running complex remediation programmes.
Starter guide
Production Hardening AI-Generated React Apps
An actionable playbook covering audit checkpoints, remediation tactics, and communication plans for React teams inheriting AI-generated code.
- Baseline bundle, runtime, and UX regressions before touching refactors.
- Stabilise CI pipelines with smoke, contract, and visual coverage.
- Sequence component rewrites in customer-facing priority order.
Advanced guide
Angular Modernization Playbook
Signals-first state management, zoneless rendering, and module boundaries that let Angular teams evolve without rewrites.
- Audit zones, change detection triggers, and monolithic modules before restructuring.
- Refactor to Signals alongside typed API contracts and performance instrumentation.
- Roll out SSR with confidence thanks to progressive hydration and guardrail tests.