The honest mechanics of merging to trunk many times a day: flags, fast CI, trunk locks, and the conditions under which you should not run it at all.
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You want forty engineers merging to main daily. How does trunk-based development survive contact with reality?
The honest mechanics of merging to trunk many times a day: flags, fast CI, trunk locks, and the conditions under which you should not run it at all.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.
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