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title: Boring Deployments Are a Feature
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date: 2026-08-10
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kicker: Article
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summary: Why a small, transparent deployment chain is often the most resilient one.
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body:
A static site does not need a sprawling production stack. A canonical Git
repository, an isolated build tool, immutable release directories, an atomic
symlink, and nginx are enough to make deployment understandable and reliable.

The important property is not novelty. It is that a failed build cannot replace
the working site.