Building Coyote CI: Why Build Another CI/CD System?

A delivery system is never merely a row of boxes between a commit and production. It is an interface between teams, infrastructure, and the operating habits that determine whether software can move with confidence.

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Start with the experience

The best platforms make the common path legible. They preserve room for complex work without demanding that every engineer first become an expert in the systems beneath it.

Good developer experience is not a thin layer over complexity. It is a sustained decision about where complexity belongs.

Useful constraints

• A pipeline definition should live with the source it builds.
• Feedback should arrive while it can still change a decision.
• Artifacts and caches should feel like durable parts of the system.

Make the implementation inspectable

Small, explicit interfaces make a platform easier to operate and evolve. A configuration file might begin as simply as this:

pipeline:
  name: verify
  steps:
    - run: go test ./...
    - run: go build ./...

That clarity matters as much at the command line as it does in the service implementation. In a static site, it also means leaving the source easy to read, host, and change.

Use git diff to review a change before publishing it, then let the actual work supply the next article.