GitHub Actions allows you to create matrix builds to execute steps multiple times with different parameters. Fun tip – those parameters can be dynamic. You can define them programmatically!

Java makes it surprisingly easy to manage and package complex projects using Apache Maven. One question I’m frequently asked – how does this integrate with GitHub Actions? Turns out that the answer is “surprisingly well!”

Last week, we examined common myths about time. Software also has hero myths, which harm developers and limit productivity in astounding ways.

Time is a precious resource. Did you know it’s also the source of common myths among managers? And those myths can drain productivity (and happiness) from teams…

If you can code it, someone will find a way to exploit it ( accidentally or intentionally). Anytime development efforts are involved, it’s important to minimize security risks and bugs. This is also true with GitHub Actions, which allows you to script advanced automation solutions. Because of this, it’s important to understand where injection can occur and how to avoid it.

Git has some interesting behaviors built into it. For example, it makes it easy to squash a set of commits into a single commit. This creates a very simple history. But what happens if that history that you’re eliminating has a tag applied to it? Does that tag get eliminated? Does it point to the newly squashed commit? Today’s article explores what to expect in that situation … and why.

It can sometimes be challenging to understand how branches work with the process of triggering Actions workflows in GitHub. Can you have a workflow per-branch? What about child branches? Plan your strategy with confidence by learning when the Actions workflow will run.

In the last post, we explored the expensive nature of technical debt and bad development practices. Today, we look at how to create financial models that help you to understand your actual costs.

Bad development practices create debt. The interest on that debt can literally make or break a company, and nobody is immune. With Internet Explorer becoming the latest casualty, it’s a good time to explore the problem.

BuildKit provides native support for caching layers to improve build times. In this post, we’ll explore implementing gha, inline, and registry caches with GHCR and GitHub Actions.