This resonated with me except the part about integration.

The article seems to assume tight coupling between tools as a prerequisite for seamless integration between them.

I am the maintainer of git-appraise, and its founding precept is that tools can be loosely coupled and still seamlessly integrate together. All they have to do is store their data in the git repository in a common format.

The result works well. For example, a commit can be built by both Travis and Jenkins, and other tools can show both results without caring which tools produced them.

The rest of the suggestions seemed reasonable, though.