When CI/CD Became Part of the Platform
From tooling to ownership. At first, CI/CD was just tooling. Something teams used. Something infra supported. Something no one owned end to end. Then it became critical. The Shift Happened Gradually CI/CD became part of the platform when: changes without it felt unsafe environments depended on it access flowed through it incidents traced back to it Pipelines stopped being optional. Early on, you could deploy manually if needed. SSH into a server. Copy files. Restart services. It was discouraged but possible. The pipeline was a convenience, not a requirement. ...