Ken Muse
Understanding Push Triggers and Branches in GitHub
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.

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Modeling the Hidden Costs of Development
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.

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The Hidden Costs of Bad Development Practices
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.

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Implementing Docker Layer Caching in GitHub Actions
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.

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Implementing Docker-from-Docker for Non-Root Users
The third and final part of our exploration of Features and creating a simple feature. Now it’s time to dive deeper into Linux scripting to create an entrypoint for the non-root users.

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