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Postmortem: A Bug in Our Jenkins 2.440 CI Pipeline Caused 5 Failed Deployments – Fixed with GitHub Actions 2.0 and Argo Workflows 3.6

DEV Community·ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL·6 months ago
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On March 12, 2024, our production deployment pipeline failed 5 times in 4 hours, costing $12,400 in downtime and eroding customer trust—all because of a silent integer overflow bug in Jenkins 2.440’s Groovy sandbox.

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