Automation That Screams Joy
Blog post from TigerBeetle
The text explores the author's disdain for shell scripting and their approach to improving automation in software projects by integrating automation scripts into the main project's repository and using the project's primary programming language. The author highlights the inefficiencies and friction caused by having automation scripts in separate repositories and written in different languages, which make them hard to modify and deploy. To address these issues, they advocate for keeping automation scripts alongside the main project code, employing a self-bootstrapping pattern to ensure the automation version matches the main branch. This method empowers developers to make changes through pull requests without needing additional deployment permissions, thereby streamlining the process and reducing friction. The author also describes a specific example of this approach in action, using a looping script to clone, build, and run their project, TigerBeetle, while utilizing lightweight sandboxing techniques.
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