https://ryantodd.dev/blog Notes on AI, operational automation, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. en-us rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ryantodd.dev/blog/why-i-centralized-azure-pipeline-logic https://ryantodd.dev/blog/why-i-centralized-azure-pipeline-logic A common pattern gives every repository its own complete pipeline definition. It feels self-contained until you are the person maintaining all of them — and you realize you are maintaining copies of the same release process. This is why I rebuilt our pipelines as a platform using extends templates, and the trade-off that came with it. Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) ci-cdazure-devopsplatform-engineeringrelease-engineeringpipelines