Ron Powell
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Ron Powell leads Web and Content Strategy at CircleCI. His team owns the website, the technical blog, and the AI-native production systems behind them. Before CircleCI, Ron was a developer evangelist at Samsung and a physicist on NASA’s Cassini mission.
Building an agentic content production system with Claude Code
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5 key takeaways from the 2026 State of Software Delivery
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DORA is right: AI is an amplifier, for better or worse
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How CircleCI implemented llms.txt for better AI discoverability
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Cloud cost-optimization strategies
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Testing in production is not as scary as it sounds
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Recovering from the Git detached HEAD state
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: how to choose a container orchestration tool
Director, Web and Content Strategy
7 Benefits of testing in isolation
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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Deploying vs releasing: What you should know to prevent outages
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Functional programming vs object-oriented programming (OOP)
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Tips for designing distributed systems
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Benefits of containerization
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SQL vs NoSQL databases
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Top 8 uses of cloud computing
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Top 6 advantages of software as a service
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Top 6 benefits of virtualization
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How to reduce flaky test failures
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Benefits and challenges of monorepo development practices
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Canary vs blue-green deployment to reduce downtime
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Continuous integration with GitOps
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How to secure your CI pipeline
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Scaling my application: am I ready?
Director, Web and Content Strategy
You don’t need to migrate from Jenkins. Start building beside it.
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Is my CI pipeline vulnerable?
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Continuous integration for mobile application development
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Essential DevOps principles
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How to measure DevOps success: 4 key metrics
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Do I really need Kubernetes?
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Feedback loops: the key to improving mean time to recovery
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Getting your manager to say ‘yes’ to DevOps tools
Director, Web and Content Strategy