Teams shipping features fast need infrastructure that gets out of the way. The reverse proxy is supposed to be boring: TLS termination, serve static files, route traffic to the app, maybe some health checks. In practice, the config grows one regex at a time, until routing decisions become cargo cult superstition. Someone changed a block six months ago and nobody knows what would break if you moved it. BareProxy is built on the insight that you can reason about routing only if you remove the things that are hard to reason about.

Security gates at the end of a sprint kill velocity. A coding agent can cut feature work time in half, but security teams that don’t understand what the agent does will block it. The agent reads code from your repo, issues from your tracker, snippets from web pages, and it writes back pull requests. One malicious instruction planted in that text can make the agent send a deploy token somewhere it shouldn’t.

Continuous delivery is typically categorized as a DevOps or engineering operations practice: build pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, infrastructure as code. This categorization is accurate but incomplete in a way that matters. Continuous delivery is also the technical prerequisite for agile development to function as intended, and teams that treat it as an infrastructure concern rather than a delivery discipline tend to develop a subtle dysfunction in their sprint practice.