aiden
hale

Software engineer specializing in tools and infrastructure. I worked in webdev, app development, embedded automotive and CI/CD systems.

This website is a collection of thoughts and notes I've written in the past few years, mostly for my own amusement.

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Dark side of automation

On its own it never creates value for the project, only optimizes the efforts. The value is delivered by the workflow that was originally developed, automation simply moves the human factor from the manual runtime to its scripted representation. For aut...

Goal-Oriented Automation in CI

I was tasked with designing a Continuous Integration (CI) system for a middleware project. The scale of the project was bigger than what I used to work with, so I decided to be a bit more thorough in my design: Unsurprisingly, I was not able to find muc...