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2026-07-17testingpostgrestrading-botpytesthermetic-testsci

Testing Against a Live Database

For months, my trading bot's test suite ran green on my machine. Then I built CI, and the very first real pipeline run failed twelve tests I had not touched in weeks.

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2026-07-16post-mortemsreci-cdgitlabdeploymenttestingpostgres

The Deploy Gate That Cried Wolf

Today I tagged a release of my trading bot, watched the pipeline march through lint, test, and build, all green, and then watched the deploy stage fail.

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