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Issue 029Field NoteRescueRef 087

Rescue benchmark: build pipeline health, and the three numbers that predict the next outage

Proactive site management mitigates outages. Regular monitoring of three key metrics within your build pipeline predicts potential issues before they impact live production.

Andrew Pemberton· Development Director
4 min readReviewed November 2024
"Monitoring three specific build pipeline metrics provides advance warning of impending site outages, allowing for proactive intervention."
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Andrew Pemberton, Development Director at iWeb
Andrew Pemberton
Development Director
19 years at iWeb

Andrew leads the development practice at iWeb and owns the delivery runbooks behind large commerce migrations. He writes about release governance, deployment sequencing, parallel-run strategy, and the engineering decisions that reduce operational risk during complex transformation programmes. Focused on stable delivery, observable systems, and migration approaches that avoid unnecessary disruption to trading.

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