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Your CI and Your Deploy Are Racing. CI Is Losing.

The default on: push trigger fires CI and deploy simultaneously. If your tests take four minutes and your deploy takes two, broken code reaches production before the first test result comes in.

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Piyush Kumar
Co-founder · BackArch · Jun 3, 2026

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DevOps & InfraJun 3, 2026
Your CI and Your Deploy Are Racing. CI Is Losing.
The default on: push trigger fires CI and deploy simultaneously. If your tests take four minutes and your deploy takes two, broken code reaches production before the first test result comes in.
PK
Piyush Kumar
6 min
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PK
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