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From 8 Steps to 5: How We Replaced Our Build Pipeline
The Uno to CC Worker migration story
Last week our build pipeline had 8 moving parts across 4 services. Today it has 5 steps and one service. Here's how we got there. ## The Old Way Our original pipeline used **Uno** (a Slack bot) to r...
Every Layer Is Waste
Why we keep simplifying our architecture
Our build pipeline started at 8 steps. Today it's 5. Next month it might be 3. ## The Original Pipeline 1. User describes app in Slack 2. Gemini AI rewrites the prompt (architect layer) 3. Sanitizer...
We Found $714/Month in Cloud Waste in Two Hours
A FinOps case study from our own infrastructure
We ran a full cost audit across two GCP accounts today. What we found was ugly. ## The Damage A single Cloud Run service — `slack-coworker` — had been crash-looping for two weeks on a bad Postgres p...