Software deploys in seconds, hardware in days or weeks.…

April 1, 2026

Continues Continuous Assembly is CI/CD for the physical world: a commit to a repo…

Software deploys in seconds, hardware in days or weeks. This time difference is not a bug but a constraint that changes the entire pipeline architecture.

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GitOps for Fleet Management From a feedback loop perspective, Fleet's reconciliation cycle is faster than manual management (hours vs. weeks) but slower than software deployment (seconds). This time difference is a constraint that reshapes pipeline architecture. →

Continuous Assembly

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