Merge Queue
Medium — good to knowCI/CD & DevOps
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Two PRs both pass CI separately. Both merge. Main is now broken. A merge queue prevents this by testing each PR against the current state of main plus all queued PRs ahead of it. It is slower, but main never breaks, which is the whole point.
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