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Your CI should be disposable
CI pipelines should be treated as ephemeral schedulers that trigger local build tools, ensuring your delivery process is never locked to a single vendor.
What: Developers are encouraged to move build logic out of CI vendor configurations and into standard tools like Nix, Docker, or Makefiles, so that builds remain runnable locally.
Why it matters: Relying on specific CI providers to manage toolchains and build environments creates vendor lock-in and leaves teams vulnerable to pipeline outages.
Takeaway: Migrate your CI build steps to local shell commands (e.g., `nix build` or `make build`) so your pipeline configuration only acts as a simple execution trigger.
Decoder
- CI: Continuous Integration, the practice of automating the building and testing of code when changes are pushed to a repository.
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CIs have one job: scheduling.
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