# CI/CD — Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/ci-cd

My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about CI/CD.

## Selected work

- [Tea, Pipelines, and Retries: A Practical Guide to MLOps](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/tea-pipelines-and-retries-a-practical-guide-to-mlops.md) (2025-10-07; SREcon EMEA 2025): Discussion at SREcon EMEA 2025 on how AI is transforming the software development lifecycle — CI/CD pipelines, deployments, scaling, monitoring, incident management, reliability tooling, and emerging disciplines like LLMOps.
- [Rob Zuber — CTO at CircleCI](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rob-zuber-cto-at-circleci.md) (2025-09-10; Humans of Reliability): The end of good code, AI throughput, and what reliability means at CI/CD scale.
- [kpack: Kubernetes-Native Build Automation With CI/CD Integration](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/kpack-kubernetes-native-build-automation-with-ci-cd-integration.md) (2025-04-04; CloudNativeNow): Using kpack to automate container image builds natively on Kubernetes with seamless CI/CD pipeline integration.
- [Boost Your Shipping Velocity With Argo and Buildpacks](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/boost-your-shipping-velocity-with-argo-and-buildpacks.md) (2024-11-11; The New Stack): Combining Argo Workflows with Cloud Native Buildpacks to create a fast, repeatable CI/CD pipeline that eliminates Dockerfile maintenance.
- [3 Ways To Improve Your Container Build Process](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/3-ways-to-improve-your-container-build-process.md) (2024-07-22; The New Stack): Practical techniques to speed up container builds, reduce image size, and improve reproducibility across development and CI environments.
- [4 Ways to Enhance Your Dockerfiles](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/4-ways-to-enhance-your-dockerfiles.md) (2023-05-04; The New Stack): Practical tips for writing better Dockerfiles — multi-stage builds, layer caching, security scanning, and image optimization.
- [DevOps Foundations Professional Certificate](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/devops-foundations-professional-certificate.md) (2023-01-01; edX): edX Professional Certificate program covering DevOps fundamentals — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and culture.
- [Shift-Left Testing Applied to Kubernetes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/shift-left-testing-applied-to-kubernetes.md) (2022-07-12; The New Stack): Moving Kubernetes configuration validation and testing earlier in the development cycle to catch issues before they reach production.
- [With AI Now a Commodity, the Speed of Iteration Is the Next Challenge](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/with-ai-now-a-commodity-the-speed-of-iteration-is-the-next-challenge.md) (2021-06-08; The New Stack): AI models are becoming commoditized. The competitive advantage now lies in how fast teams can iterate on data, features, and deployment pipelines.
- [What Is MLOps?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/what-is-mlops.md) (2021-03-19; The New Stack): A primer on MLOps — the practices, tools, and culture for managing machine learning models in production at scale.

[All work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/index.md)