**73% of engineering teams are drowning in technical debt because of their CI/CD pipelines. Not despite them—because of them.**
Are your automation tools secretly sabotaging your codebase? Today's Platform Engineering Playbook dives deep into the hidden ways CI/CD pipelines create technical debt and reveals practical strategies to break the cycle.
**What You'll Learn:**
• Why inheritance beats copying in platform design
• Docker's new hardened images for bulletproof container security
• How OpenTelemetry's log deduplication processor can slash your log volume
• Critical vulnerabilities in Chainlit and Cloudflare you need to patch NOW
• Actionable steps to audit and optimize your CI/CD debt
**Episode Chapters:**
0:00 Cold Open - The 73% Problem
1:30 Platform Engineering News Roundup
8:45 Deep Dive: CI/CD Technical Debt Crisis
15:20 The Theory vs Reality of Inheritance
22:10 Practical Solutions for Your Organization
28:30 Security Alert Roundup
Whether you're a platform engineer drowning in legacy pipelines or a team lead trying to prevent future debt, this episode gives you the frameworks and tools to build sustainable automation that actually reduces complexity instead of adding to it.
**Sources & References:**
• CI/CD Technical Debt Analysis: https://thenewstack.io/are-your-ci-cd-pipelines-accidentally-increasing-technical-debt/
• Docker Hardened Images: https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23568/17258698/docker-hardened-images-container-security
• OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/log-deduplication-processor/
• Chainlit Security Advisory: https://www.securityweek.com/chainlit-vulnerabilities-may-leak-sensitive-information/
• Cloudflare Zero-Day Alert: https://cybersecuritynews.com/cloudflare-zero-day-vulnerability/
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