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If you’re part of a software engineering team in digital health, medtech, medical devices, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), etc. you have to comply with regulatory standards. And one of the biggest challenges engineering leads have in this sector is figuring out what they have to do to achieve software delivery compliance.

Hello, and welcome to the April edition of the changelog. The weather is finally starting to stabilize and resembles one rather than all the seasons. Parks are full of colors and goslings, and at Kosli we’re as busy as ever, so let’s get right into it.

Cloud CI/CD is a force multiplier for development teams, especially those working remotely. Automated CI/CD takes load off of developers, allowing them to focus on building better products. Hosted CI/CD adds further benefit to this, ensuring that this newfound capacity isn’t spent managing the testing and deployment infrastructure, and that remote team members have easy access to CI/CD tools.

In April 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released a new functionality that allows users running Ubuntu LTS to upgrade their instances to Ubuntu Pro with just a few clicks. This upgrade provides additional security features, including patching for universe packages, extended security management for an additional five years, live kernel patching, and access to FedRamp and FIPS modules.

The idea of ‘collaboration’ in software development isn’t new. More often than not, delivery of a software product is only possible because of teamwork and combined effort. Over time, collaboration has risen to priority one in the tech world, and some tools now make it seamless to share resources and work across even the largest of teams. In this article, we are going to be exploring GitHub, a collaboration platform that helps teams work and ship products together.

In the ever-changing, fast-paced world of software development, Agile and DevOps are some of the most resilient methodologies that stand the test of time. Whether you’re a business leader, a project lead, or an operations manager desperately trying to sync your developer with other departments, when you think of Agile, you should think of flexibility and continuous improvement.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model operates by treating each customer as a tenant of the application. To use the SaaS application, each tenant is usually required to pay a subscription. There are three main tenancy models for a SaaS application: In this article we'll focus on specific challenges brought about by the single-tenant model, including developing, deploying, and keeping up-to-date several instances of the SaaS application.