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7/11/2026
What a Refinery Taught Me About CI Pipelines

What a Refinery Taught Me About CI Pipelines

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A former industrial maintenance worker turned developer draws parallels between refinery safety practices and CI pipeline design. The key lesson: never trust a single point of failure. Just as refineries use double block-and-bleed valves, CI pipelines should layer independent validation tools—formatting, linting, type checking, accessibility, performance, HTML validation, SEO—because each tool has blind spots.

  • •Industrial safety principle of independent layers applies to CI pipelines
  • •No single tool like Lighthouse should get the final vote on shipping
  • •Layered validation: formatting, linting, type checking, a11y, performance, HTML validation, SEO, manual review

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