334 - Merge Queues and Building Mergify with Julien Danjou

In this episode I talk with Julien Danjou, CEO of Mergify, about merge queues: why PRs that pass CI separately can still break main together, and how testing changes in a queue keeps main green. We discuss how Mergify grew out of OpenStack and open-source networks, why a "book a call" link beat a Stripe checkout for sales, selling on ROI after the 2022 budget cuts, and how AI-driven code volume is making merge queues more necessary. Links: - Mergify - Julien Danjou's Blog - The Origin Story of Merge Queues - SaturnCI - Nonsense Monthly