GitHub is an absolutely fantastic service. Really. Microsoft deserves real kudos for taking it over and keeping it running as a world class service to the community. It drives open source development and the free tier for startups is generous enough that it’s pretty easy to run free until you start making a profit and start needing the enterprisey features. I’m such a fan I recently wrote a post about how I performance tuned my GitHub CICD pipeline.

A CI/CD Pipeline is one of the key tools software engineers have to produce high quality software. It stands for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). The idea being that instead of making a bunch of changes to your software and then pulling it all together to test it at the end, you should continuously integrate (test) and release (deploy) your software to find bugs faster. Like many people, I store my software source code on GitHub.