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CI/CD Mistakes That Are Quietly Costing Your Team Deploy Time

Most teams don't notice their CI/CD pipeline is broken — they just notice that deploys "feel slow" and shrug it off as normal. It isn't.

  • Running full test suite for every change wastes time on unrelated modifications
  • Lack of caching between builds re-installs dependencies on each pipeline run
  • Sequential steps that don't depend on each other are executed one after another

How I tested Row Level Security before shipping a SaaS starter kit (so one user can't see another's data)

When you're building a multi-tenant app, there's one bug category that's worse than any other: a user seeing someone else's data. Not a crash, not a broken button — a genuine privacy failure.

  • Tested Row Level Security with Supabase to prevent users from viewing other users' data.
  • Created a policy pattern for owner-scoped tables to filter rows based on authenticated user's ID.
  • Conducted impersonation tests to verify RLS policy effectiveness in both read and write operations.

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