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Why QA and DevOps Are Converging

Why QA and DevOps Are Converging

The invisible wall between “testing” and “delivery” is finally coming down. For most of software’s history, Quality Assurance (QA) and DevOps have lived in separate worlds. QA focused on finding defects before release; DevOps focused on deploying code quickly and reliably after it. Different teams. Different tooling. Different incentives.

Why Your CI Pipeline Is a Product - And Needs a Roadmap

Why Your CI Pipeline Is a Product - And Needs a Roadmap

Every engineering team says they “have CI/CD.” But very few treat it like a product. They treat it like plumbing; something that “just works” in the background. And when it doesn’t, they patch it, rerun it, and move on. That mindset is exactly why so many pipelines become

Self-Healing QA Infrastructure Using AWS EventBridge

Self-Healing QA Infrastructure Using AWS EventBridge

The 2 A.M. Problem Every QA or DevOps lead knows this story. It’s 2 a.m. and Slack lights up red: “Regression run failed; timeout after 45 minutes.” You scroll through CloudWatch logs. Network blip. ECS container died. You hit “rerun.” It passes. And you mutter, why am

How to Use AWS Bedrock or Claude for Real-Time Pipeline Triage Summaries

Bringing AI observability into CI/CD with Bedrock + Claude for instant insight, not just logs. The problem: CI/CD is drowning us in logs If you’ve ever been on-call for a CI/CD system, you know the pain. A build fails at 2:17 a.m., PagerDuty goes off,

The 15-Minute Rule: PR Feedback SLOs

The 15-Minute Rule: PR Feedback SLOs

Engineering teams love to talk about speed. “We deploy 20 times a day.” “We can spin up a new service in an hour.” “We cut release time from weeks to hours.” But hidden beneath all those flashy stats is a quieter, less glamorous number that might matter even more: how

How to Triage CI Results (and Tag Them with AI) Using the P0–P3 Method

How to Triage CI Results (and Tag Them with AI) Using the P0–P3 Method

Continuous Integration (CI) is supposed to accelerate delivery. Push code, run tests, get fast feedback, ship with confidence. But reality? Most teams hit a wall: too many test failures, too little time, no clarity on what matters. * Is this failure a product regression or a flaky test? * Should this block

360° Test Intelligence Playbook for QE Directors

360° Test Intelligence Playbook for QE Directors

Blunt truth: If you don’t instrument usage and wire it into CI, you’re guessing. This playbook turns production reality into test strategy, automation ROI, and faster, safer releases. 0) Outcomes (What “Good” Looks Like) * Automate the right things: High‑usage, high‑criticality, deterministic flows. * Explore the right things: