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Premiered at GitKon 2021, this video takes an artistic look at various Git concepts.

Git can be intimidating for non-developers, even though it’s in use by businesses and organizations across the world. In what other ways can we use Git to build and structure our lives? In this talk from the GitKon Git conference by Jessi Shakarian from DIA Design Guild, we will look at how you can use Git and GitKraken to brainstorm, draft, and edit parts of a book. Using Git for writers is just one example of how Git can be used beyond coding.

Video Description: Git Velocity is a set of Git metrics and data that can help you and your teammates work more effectively with Git and each other. The purpose of collecting and using these Git metrics is to ship quality code more frequently with fewer bugs.

Have you heard about Jamstack? If we consider the advantages of static web pages, we can create scalable websites with better performance and enhanced security, all at a lower cost. In this talk by Facundo Giuliani from Storyblok, you will learn how to maintain and deploy Jamstack websites, generate static assets on build time, use different data sources, like Headless CMS, and get builds triggered automatically whenever a change is introduced to your Git repository.

In April 2005, Linus Torvalds gave us 1,000 lines of C code sprinkled with TODOs and comments about design decisions. What was meant to be the basis of an “information manager” to help him develop the Linux kernel evolved into what we now know as Git. 15 years later, Git is the dominant version control system in use worldwide, and has spawned an entire ecosystem of Git software and tools.

Developers of a certain age remember life before Git. Some of us remember Subversion, some of us remember CVS, and a few wise old souls remember the days when version control meant remembering to write the date on the floppy disks. But here in 2021, Git and hosted platforms like GitHub have revolutionized collaborative software development.

For more than six years, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has strived to measure and understand how teams achieve “DevOps success”, and they found that four simple measurements can accurately separate elite performers from the rest of the pack.

DevOps concepts and CI/CD tools are gaining wider adoption as they help developers deliver code faster than ever before, but persistent struggles exist across the industry and prevent teams from achieving optimum velocity. Even though the vast majority of developers choose Git as their preferred version control platform, most don’t understand the critical role Git plays in the continuous delivery process, and how powerful it can be when combined with CI/CD tools.

No matter the team or the project, developers need to keep everyone updated on their progress. While Jira provides a rock-solid foundation for tracking and communicating progress, most developers agree: they don’t want to live in Jira. And neither do managers! They also want to see developers focused on solving hard problems and getting new features safely out the door.