Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Read the description first, then tests, then the main change, then the rest. A five step reading order that finds security problems early in large diffs.
Compare four ways to run third-party plugins and the isolation each gives. A decision guide for product teams that need to choose a plugin runtime.
Start in CI if you must pick one, because it is the enforceable point. Add the IDE for faster feedback. Here is the reasoning and a table to compare.
A quick guide to what each scan stage is for: IDE for hints, CLI for local and one-off checks, CI for repeatable runs, pull request for the enforced gate.
Husky hooks belong on developer machines. Set HUSKY to 0 in CI and Docker so the prepare script installs nothing and the build runs less install time code.
Use GitHub environments with required reviewers so a job pauses until a person approves. Setup steps, plan limits and what approval should show.
Set HF_HUB_OFFLINE so the library makes no Hub calls and uses the cache. Pre-fetch a pinned revision, ship the cache, and test it with no network.
Reuse HttpClient. Use one long lived client with PooledConnectionLifetime set, or IHttpClientFactory. Never create a new client for every request.
HttpClient.Timeout defaults to 100 seconds, which is long for a service call. Set tighter limits, plus per request cancellation tokens for each call.
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