Frigga Blogs

Most container images are large for one boring reason: the build tools sneak into production. The compiler, the package manager, the development dependencies, and often the source code itself all ship in the final image, where none of them r…

Every change you ship might be wrong. That is not pessimism, it is the base rate of software, and the only real question is how many of your users find out at the same time. The most expensive way to answer that question is all of them a…

Somewhere in your repository is a feature branch that was created two weeks ago, sits dozens of commits behind main, and that nobody wants to review. That branch is not progress. It is a merge you have been deferring, and it gets more expens…

A flaky test is one that passes and fails on the same code, with nothing changed, and most teams treat it as a minor irritation to be reran away. It is not minor. It is also getting worse. Bitrise analysed more than 10 million CI builds …

Most teams have no idea what their continuous integration actually costs, and the number only gets attention when finance asks about it. The scale is enormous and the rules just changed. Developers burned through 11.5 billion GitHub Acti…

Most engineering leaders cannot tell you, with numbers, whether their organisation is actually healthy. They can quote headcount, story points, and how busy everyone looks, none of which answer the question. There is a better answer, and…