The Tao of Continuous Integration

Summary: Trail of Bits outlines why CI systems become brittle: tests are least useful when first written, flaky tests erode developer trust, and long cycle times push developers to balloon pull requests rather than wait. The post recommends a latency budget for CI, combining coverage across targets, and fixing reliability incrementally rather than rewriting.
What's compelling: The post states that when CI is too slow, developers batch unrelated changes into 300-line pull requests to avoid an hour-long merge wait, which degrades review quality and the project itself.

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