GitHub Actions Stories
GitHub Actions feels lightweight until pipelines become critical production infrastructure. These stories cover runner strategy, workflow sprawl, secret handling, and the sharp edges teams hit during real migrations.
2 stories
🚀 Migration
How We Moved 200 Services off Jenkins in About 3 Months
👤 @pete-builds-ciSaaS2025
“I owned the least glamorous part of platform engineering: keeping an aging Jenkins estate alive while the rest of the company added more services every quarter. By the time we star...”
JenkinsGitHub ActionsCI/CDAWS+1
🏗️ System DesignHow We Built a Production-Grade AWS Infrastructure from Scratch in 6 Weeks — as a Team of Two
👤 Swift-Timber-19a Early-stage startup SaaS2026
“We were 14 months into building a B2B document intelligence platform for legal teams. Our entire infrastructure was a single $48/mo DigitalOcean VPS — one box, manually SSHed into,...”
AWSTerraformGitHub ActionsDocker+4