“But locally everything went green!”

We all know this pain: your pipeline is green, your tests run locally in milliseconds. You deploy to staging or production – and it works. SQLSyntaxErrorException. Or worse: data is stored incorrectly.

Kubernetes has completely changed the way we deploy software. It’s powerful, scalable and… honestly often quite overwhelming. Maybe you know the feeling: you understand the basics of pods and services, but suddenly you’re drowning in a flood of manifest files. What was manageable …

The two pillars of requirements

It’s Friday afternoon, 4:00 p.m. You’ve just merged the feature, the pipeline is green, and you feel invincible. Then the Slack message comes from the product owner: “Hey, looks good, but why does X happen when I do Y? That was discussed completely …