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Subtle Engineering

How Modern SaaS Teams Ship Fast, Stay Sane, and Skip the Process Theatre

Lukasz Olczyk

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Lukasz Olczyk
09 September 2025
A calm, practitioner's field manual for modern SaaS delivery: trunk-based development, continuous delivery, feature toggles, boring deploys, fast MTTR-even in regulated environments.

Shipping quickly isn't magic. It's a set of constraints you encode into your pipeline, your infra, and your culture, so Fridays stop being dramatic. Subtle Engineering shows leaders and senior ICs how to get there without buzzwords or ceremony.

You'll learn how to:

Move to trunk-based development (hours, not weeks) and keep it shippable-always. Use feature toggles and guarded rollouts (canary + instant rollback) to make change reversible. Build pipelines that are a mirror of your engineering culture-and make them heal themselves. Run immutable infrastructure (no SSH) and policy-as-code that auditors actually like. Instrument what matters (DORA + SLOs) to shrink MTTR and stop arguing with opinions. Tackle legacy migrations with shadow traffic and expand/contract data changes-no bulldozers. Operate ""regulated without theatre"" with an evidence chain from commit → signed artifact → rollout → metrics.

Who it's for:

Hands-on engineering managers, staff+ engineers, platform/SRE leads, and CTOs who prefer evidence over ritual and want a 90-day path to quiet, repeatable delivery.

If you're tired of loud heroics,

this handbook gets you to calm velocity and keeps you there.
By:  
Imprint:   Lukasz Olczyk
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   259g
ISBN:   9783912147049
ISBN 10:   3912147043
Pages:   102
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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