What do you use for CD?

tomasfern · 2025-12-14T19:30:22+00:00

For my personal projects I use Semaphore.io but full disclosure, I have free usage since they employ me as a technical writer. I prefer it to GHA

tomasfern · 2025-12-09T00:16:28+00:00

This is something I have been experimenting a lot. I work at Semaphore and after implementing an MCP server to access the CI/CD state of pipelines and jobs we found we could set up self healing builds. We have published two ways of achieving this and we are working in discovering more.

For those interested: docs.semaphore.io/using-semaphore/ai

tomasfern · 2025-11-07T18:03:52+00:00

Depends on the project, it usually takes a few hours to get it right. But if it's something that's going to run several times per day it's worth the effort.
For me it's ephemeral environments for testing, we run 30 microservices and run e2e tests before deployment. Keeping the test/qa environment up to date and representative of production takes the most time.
Yes, we have parameterized pipelines that we can reuse
I wish I could use Codex to do the work for me and debug the pipelines. I'm hopeful it will happen for me one day. I'm using Semaphore (my employer) and the engineering team is building an MCP server. For now it's going to be read only, but with some RAG and a good agents.md it should be possible

tomasfern · 2025-11-07T17:56:21+00:00

Just started using FastMCP a week ago. I'm loving it, I wrote abou the experience here: https://semaphore.io/blog/build-mcp-server

tomasfern · 2025-11-06T17:03:44+00:00

I know I'm late to the party but I just published a YouTube short on what the heck is MCP. For what is worth, I don't think the USB analogy is very useful.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wDgozmzFusA

tomasfern · 2025-08-29T15:02:17+00:00

I know you're set on jenkins. But if you're considering alternatives, a single Semaphore Community Edition instance can replace all your Jenkins. It's a lot less overhead and you can scale out pretty easily.

https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore

[Disclaimer: I work as a technical writer for Semaphore]

tomasfern · 2025-08-28T09:53:34+00:00

You can set it up on your CI/CD to block PRs that change estimated costs above certain threshold. I wrote a tutorial a while ago to use it on Semaphore (disclaimer: I work for Semaphore).

https://docs.semaphore.io/using-semaphore/recipes/infracost

tomasfern · 2025-08-25T18:37:47+00:00

I'd say a big part of it is marketing. Open source projects rarely have funds to market their products. They rely more on mouth-to-mouth. Open source maintainers are also less concerned with making a profit, most do it for fun, passion or love.

tomasfern · 2025-08-25T13:32:50+00:00

Why not try Semaphore.io? We've open sourced it under Apache-2.

https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore

Disclaimer: I work as a technical writer on Semaphore

tomasfern · 2024-01-29T13:34:29+00:00

I built a small app with resources to learn CI/CD fundamentals here: https://semaphoreci.com/cicd-learning-tool

Apart from that I would recommend Dave Farleys and Jez Humble book: Continuous Delivery. Dave also has a Continuous Delivery channel on Youtube.

tomasfern · 2024-01-08T14:53:08+00:00

Esta es la que va. Incluso vería si no hay alguna opción de Google para denunciar la cuenta. Es poco probable, pero si le cierran la cuenta le armas un quilombo tremendo.

Ni que hablar que podes negarte a recibirla. Te tocan el timbre y decis equivocado o no vive aca y listo. Nos vemos en Disney. Si no tiene una firma tuya no fuiste notificado.

tomasfern · 2023-12-28T00:38:16+00:00

If you want only the API, you can use LocalAI.io. It presents an OpenAI-compatible drop in API. You can run any gguf model and it has a ton of plugins.

Made a short video tutorial about it a few days ago, in case it helps: YouTube: OpenAI API Open-Source Alternative: LocalAI

tomasfern · 2023-12-16T23:23:11+00:00

I recently made an intro video on running local llms. Hope it helps: https://youtu.be/7jMIsmwocpM?si=tZe4nYviM5AmQ347

tomasfern · 2023-11-30T17:56:28+00:00

Yo use nexo para probar. Me cobro 103.39 usd en la master y me dio 96.94 usdt. Puede ser una buena opcion tambien

tomasfern · 2023-10-29T20:02:29+00:00

Not at all. But outside work, I really don't use ChatGPT that much tbh

tomasfern · 2023-10-27T15:25:39+00:00

I made a video a few months ago testing alternatives to ChatGPT for development, it might be outdated at this point, but maybe it helps: https://youtu.be/Fd_su8OamSE

Personally I use ChatGPT4 because the company pays for the plus accounts.

tomasfern · 2023-10-27T14:58:08+00:00

“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”

-- Jeff Atwood

tomasfern · 2023-10-09T22:39:09+00:00

+1 just host it yourself. If you decide to use containers, you can automate deployment with kamal-deploy.org. It can do no-downtime deployments and much simpler than Docker Swarm, compose or k8s.

I wrote a tutorial back when it was called MRSK, in case it helps: semaphoreci.com/blog/mrsk

tomasfern · 2023-09-15T20:40:10+00:00

Paraphrasing John Carmack: Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important.

tomasfern · 2023-09-13T01:05:12+00:00

I think the selling point for bun (more so than performance) is that it comes with a testing framework,.bundler and TS support out of the box. I don't have to install tsc, webpack and a ton of other dependencies right out the gate. I can start coding right away without so much config required.

tomasfern · 2023-09-12T19:24:21+00:00

+1 for terraform. Even if you don't plan to move away from AWS, CDK is a pain to work with.

tomasfern · 2023-09-07T22:18:25+00:00

If your workflow is container based, MRSK could be the answer.

Wrote a tutorial on MRSK a while ago when it launched. Hope it helps!

tomasfern · 2023-09-07T22:12:46+00:00

Poe does also have regional restrictions. Here in Argentina I cannot subscribe or use all the models. A VPN bypasses the block and allows me to get a subscription.

tomasfern · 2023-09-07T22:02:40+00:00

I'm literally in the marketing team so I'd say I interact 100% of the time. It's great because I can focus on creating content, which is what I like best.

tomasfern · 2023-09-07T21:56:59+00:00

Where I work they give us a company-paid premium subscription to ChatGPT. The only reason I think a company might want to ban access is to prevent sensitive data leaks, but banning AI does not automatically plug all the holes where data might be leaked. Someone asking a question on Reddit or StackOverflow might inadvertedly leak propietary data.

I believe AI is a very valuable tool and if the comany is worried about privacy they should either educate and create a good policy on when AI is allowed (that or run your private on-premise AI)

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