Latest posts from the Trunk engineering blog https://trunk.io/blog en-us Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:28:33 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/your-merge-queue-shouldnt-go-down-when-github-does https://trunk.io/blog/your-merge-queue-shouldnt-go-down-when-github-does Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/code-first-engineering https://trunk.io/blog/code-first-engineering Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/don-t-build-agents-build-context-enrichment https://trunk.io/blog/don-t-build-agents-build-context-enrichment Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-flaky-tests-is-out-of-beta https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-flaky-tests-is-out-of-beta Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/when-your-development-team-actually-needs-a-merge-queue https://trunk.io/blog/when-your-development-team-actually-needs-a-merge-queue Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/outgrowing-github-merge-queue https://trunk.io/blog/outgrowing-github-merge-queue Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/in-defense-of-vscode-why-are-we-paying-for-cursor https://trunk.io/blog/in-defense-of-vscode-why-are-we-paying-for-cursor Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/cursor-s-bugbot-code-reviewer-and-web-app-are-a-dx-nightmare https://trunk.io/blog/cursor-s-bugbot-code-reviewer-and-web-app-are-a-dx-nightmare Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/don-t-let-ai-debug-your-code-alone-yet https://trunk.io/blog/don-t-let-ai-debug-your-code-alone-yet Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/early-thoughts-on-kiro-amazon-s-new-agentic-ide-vscode-fork https://trunk.io/blog/early-thoughts-on-kiro-amazon-s-new-agentic-ide-vscode-fork Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/engineers-shouldn-t-babysit-pipelines-ai-agents-should https://trunk.io/blog/engineers-shouldn-t-babysit-pipelines-ai-agents-should Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/the-joy-of-a-boring-codebase https://trunk.io/blog/the-joy-of-a-boring-codebase Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/ai-tools-are-not-time-machines https://trunk.io/blog/ai-tools-are-not-time-machines Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/attempting-to-engineer-the-chaos-out-of-ai-agents https://trunk.io/blog/attempting-to-engineer-the-chaos-out-of-ai-agents Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/devops-without-the-drain-how-ai-frees-developers-from-repetitive-ops-work https://trunk.io/blog/devops-without-the-drain-how-ai-frees-developers-from-repetitive-ops-work Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/you-don-t-need-a-developer-experience-team-to-have-a-good-internal-devex https://trunk.io/blog/you-don-t-need-a-developer-experience-team-to-have-a-good-internal-devex Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/beyond-the-editor-bringing-ai-to-the-rest-of-your-dev-workflow https://trunk.io/blog/beyond-the-editor-bringing-ai-to-the-rest-of-your-dev-workflow Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/merge-fast-or-merge-cheap-fine-tuning-merge-queues-to-handle-an-increase-in-prs-f https://trunk.io/blog/merge-fast-or-merge-cheap-fine-tuning-merge-queues-to-handle-an-increase-in-prs-f Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/beyond-xctskip-stop-flaky-ios-tests-from-blocking-your-team https://trunk.io/blog/beyond-xctskip-stop-flaky-ios-tests-from-blocking-your-team Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/eradicating-flaky-tests https://trunk.io/blog/eradicating-flaky-tests Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-avoid-and-detect-flaky-tests-in-vitest https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-avoid-and-detect-flaky-tests-in-vitest How to find flaky tests in your Vitest suites and what to do about them. Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/stop-flaky-tests-from-sabotaging-your-merge-queue https://trunk.io/blog/stop-flaky-tests-from-sabotaging-your-merge-queue Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-avoid-and-detect-flaky-tests-in-pytest https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-avoid-and-detect-flaky-tests-in-pytest How to find flaky tests in your Python project and strategies to deal with them. Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/what-we-learned-from-analyzing-20-2-million-ci-jobs-in-trunk-flaky-tests-part-2 https://trunk.io/blog/what-we-learned-from-analyzing-20-2-million-ci-jobs-in-trunk-flaky-tests-part-2 What 20.2 million CI jobs taught us about building a tool for eliminating flaky tests. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/announcing-trunk-flaky-tests https://trunk.io/blog/announcing-trunk-flaky-tests Trunk releases their new tool for detecting and managing flaky tests. Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/what-we-learned-from-analyzing-20-2-million-ci-jobs-in-trunk-flaky-tests-part-1 https://trunk.io/blog/what-we-learned-from-analyzing-20-2-million-ci-jobs-in-trunk-flaky-tests-part-1 Here's what analyzing 20.2 million CI jobs taught us about flaky tests. Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/improving-linting-experience-in-eslint-s-open-source-repo-with-trunk-code-quality https://trunk.io/blog/improving-linting-experience-in-eslint-s-open-source-repo-with-trunk-code-quality ESLint adopts Trunk Code Quality to lint their open-source repo. Find out why. Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-flaky-tests https://trunk.io/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-flaky-tests How to identify, track, and fix Flaky Tests that degrade trust in your test suite and wastes CI time. Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/fixme-please-an-exercise-in-todo-linters https://trunk.io/blog/fixme-please-an-exercise-in-todo-linters There are many linters that let you lint for TODO comments, but which one is the best? We example Markdownlint, ESLint, Grep Linter, Vale, CSpell, CodeSpell, Semgrep, trunk-toolbox Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-we-crack-the-coding-interview https://trunk.io/blog/how-we-crack-the-coding-interview Get insights into Trunk's coding interview process, including technical, system design, and code design interviews, and how they evaluate engineering skills. Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/tech-debt-and-monoliths https://trunk.io/blog/tech-debt-and-monoliths Tech debt can be good. It gives you leverage. The same with Monoliths Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/sometimes-four-queries-are-faster-than-one https://trunk.io/blog/sometimes-four-queries-are-faster-than-one Mav describes investigating an SQL slow down and fixing it, without rewriting the world. Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/early-access-flaky-tests-solution https://trunk.io/blog/early-access-flaky-tests-solution What are flaky tests and how to fix them once and for all Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-merge-perf-and-feature-updates https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-merge-perf-and-feature-updates Several features to improve speed and decrease CI costs are live now. Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/reasons-developers-hate-linters https://trunk.io/blog/reasons-developers-hate-linters Common reasons why developers don't adopt linters and how to address them. Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-achieves-soc-2-compliance https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-achieves-soc-2-compliance After much hard work Trunk has achieved SOC 2 compliance Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-we-eliminate-tool-rot-and-confidently-upgrade-our-open-source-dependencies https://trunk.io/blog/how-we-eliminate-tool-rot-and-confidently-upgrade-our-open-source-dependencies Upgrading deps that could change or be broken at any moment is hard. We solved it with special testing strategy. Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/make-your-open-source-js-project-friendlier-with-automation https://trunk.io/blog/make-your-open-source-js-project-friendlier-with-automation A list of tips and tricks that will make your open source JavaScript (or TypeScript) faster and easier to develop and publish. Includes setting up eslint, prettier, GitHub Actions, NPM secrets, and common code styles. Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-merge https://trunk.io/blog/trunk-merge Why merge PRs in parallel? This Avoid broken builds, eliminate manual processes and merge PRs in parallel Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/integrating-your-own-custom-tools-with-trunk-check https://trunk.io/blog/integrating-your-own-custom-tools-with-trunk-check A plugin is a snippet of configuration code that lets Check automatically download, configure, and run other tools Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/enhancing-code-quality-and-security-in-the-ai-era https://trunk.io/blog/enhancing-code-quality-and-security-in-the-ai-era Learn how to improve code quality and security while using LLM and AI Code Gen for your code; while providing a smooth developer experience Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/why-you-want-consistent-tooling-across-your-organization https://trunk.io/blog/why-you-want-consistent-tooling-across-your-organization Discover how consistent tooling in your organization can streamline workflows, improve code quality, and boost developer productivity Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-self-host-github-actions-runners https://trunk.io/blog/how-to-self-host-github-actions-runners Step-by-step guide on self-hosting GitHub Actions runners for improved CI efficiency and cost-effectiveness, with detailed instructions and best practices Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/how-console-saves-1-day-a-week-per-engineer-with-trunk https://trunk.io/blog/how-console-saves-1-day-a-week-per-engineer-with-trunk Discover how Console saves each engineer a day per week with Trunk, boosting productivity and ensuring consistent code quality and efficiency Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/shifting-security-left-with-trunk-check https://trunk.io/blog/shifting-security-left-with-trunk-check Learn how Trunk Check integrates security early in the dev cycle, saving time and enhancing code safety, for proactive, efficient software development Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/from-black-box-to-transparent-debugging https://trunk.io/blog/from-black-box-to-transparent-debugging Debug smarter by SSH-ing directly into your CI system, so you can inspect logs, skip flaky tests, and diagnose failures without restarating your entire pipeline. Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/analytics-for-github-actions https://trunk.io/blog/analytics-for-github-actions Trunk.io introduces CI Analytics for GitHub Actions, offering detailed insights and dashboards to enhance CI process efficiency and performance Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/git-for-trunk-based-development https://trunk.io/blog/git-for-trunk-based-development Learn efficient Git practices for trunk-based development: simplifying commands, updating branches, and unifying team practices for streamlined coding. Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/82-of-open-source-projects-suffer-from-tool-rot https://trunk.io/blog/82-of-open-source-projects-suffer-from-tool-rot Uncover how 82% of open-source projects struggle with outdated tools, and how Trunk Check can help in keeping software tools efficiently updated Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://trunk.io/blog/git-commit-messages-are-useless https://trunk.io/blog/git-commit-messages-are-useless Rethink Git practices on why commit messages in PR branches are often redundant; instead focus on the final state of the code for better workflow practices Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT