CI/CD Pipelines Explained for Solo Developers (Big Tech Patterns)

Your app is live and has real users. How do you ship updates without breaking them? This is the CI/CD pattern I learned shipping infrastructure at AWS — adapted for solo developers and vibe coders: → Compile → push to a test account (exact replica of prod) → Run validations there before anything reaches live customers → Big tech rolls out gradually across regions so a bug never affects everyone → For solo builders: bare minimum is a test that tells you when the system broke Production-grade engineering judgment, scaled down to one person. Full course in the description. #cicd #devops #aws #claudecode #vibecoding