ClueCon Weeky with Carlus Henry [Sn. 15 Ep. 20]: CI/CD Tools, Deployments, Secrets, Monitoring

ClueCon Weeky with Carlus Henry [Sn. 15 Ep. 20]: CI/CD Tools, Deployments, Secrets, Monitoring

In part two of our conversation with Carlus Henry (CI/CD and integration expert, Sage Tech), we get practical about what it actually takes to ship reliably, especially when your “team” is one or two people moving fast.

We dig into where to start with CI when you’re still small, what a sane path looks like from scripts to a real pipeline, and when tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions make the most sense. We also talk deployment choices (Heroku, Cloud Run, AWS options), the tradeoffs you’ll feel as workloads grow, and why “simple” often wins early on.

Then we hit the stuff people skip until it hurts: secrets management (and why environment variables aren’t enough), what good monitoring looks like in practice, and how to set alert thresholds that catch problems before your users do. Finally, we zoom out to the bigger shift—what companies need to change culturally and operationally to really benefit from continuous deployment (including a spicy take on pull requests).

Did you miss part one? Check it out!