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Know Before You Go : KubeCon EU 2024

Let's face it - major global conferences like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can be intimidating and exhausting to navigate, whether you're a newbie or a veteran. As an international attendee, add in travel, jetlag, and a bunch of other stuff and what you get is a recipe for a stressful week. Join Robert Sirchia as he hosts Aurelie Vache and Cyril Cuvier to learn how you can make the most of the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Paris.

New Integration: Cycle.io and Depot.dev Team Up for Enhanced Docker Builds

In our continuous mission to improve development workflows and operational efficiency for our users, Cycle.io is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Depot. This collaboration is set to revolutionize how organizations build images, focusing on accelerating the Dockerfile build process. "I'm particularly excited to add this integration to Cycle's platform.

Standardizing your web application stack and how to do it

Managing web applications from the ground up can be a daunting task. One application alone can quickly grow in complexity, let alone the multiple applications that are often required by different business units and stakeholders growing simultaneously. Add the ever-changing landscape of trendy frameworks and runtimes, and you quickly find yourself with an unmanageable mess of different technologies. Standardizing your application stack can help reduce the clutter.

Patching Go's leaky HTTP clients

In November 2023 we discovered an issue in the Go standard library’s net/http.Client that allowed an attacker who controls redirect targets on a server to exfiltrate authentication secrets. Soon after, we discovered a similar issue in net/http/cookiejar.Jar. The issues, collectively designated CVE-2023-45289, have now been fixed in Go 1.22.1 and Go 1.21.8, released on March 5, 2024. This blog post dives into the technical details behind those two bugs and the patch that addresses them.

Splitting and parallelizing Android UI tests with Espresso and CircleCI

For Android developers, test automation on CI/CD platforms such as CircleCI has become an indispensable part of the development workflow. But merely implementing automated testing is no longer enough to remain competitive and continue to develop at speed. Developers must also work to continuously monitor, maintain, and improve their test automation. As an application grows in complexity, the scale of development grows, as does the number of automated tests.

15 Engineering KPIs to Improve Software Development

Software engineering key performance indicators (KPIs) help engineer leadings keep teams accountable while ensuring focus on highest leverage activities. They are essential for driving process improvement, managing risks, supporting data-driven decision making, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Without KPIs, teams may encounter challenges related to visibility, efficiency, decision-making, quality, and customer satisfaction, which can ultimately impact project success and organizational performance.

The Benefits of Using vSphere and Terraform Together

Terraform continues to be one of the biggest names in the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) field, but other players are also making their presence felt. One of the relatively new solutions currently seeing momentum in IaC is vSphere, a virtualization platform developed by VMware, Inc. It is intended for the virtualization of physical servers and the consolidation of the virtualized servers to enhance scalability, agility, and efficiency in IT infrastructure management.