Julien Danjou 3/26/2025

When Great Tech Isn’t Enough

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This article details a software team's journey of building and killing two products. After their CI cost-optimization tool failed, they pivoted to 'CI Issues,' a product to track and alert on CI/CD reliability problems like flaky tests. Despite initial excitement and solid technology, they realized they had built complex, fragile tech instead of a usable, scalable product, leading to another shutdown.

When Great Tech Isn’t Enough

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