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New and Improved: The JFrog Packages User Experience

I think we can all agree that, in general, different users have different needs. For instance, we’ve found that developers generally use Artifactory to find, select, and then install packages into their development environment, while administrators tend to use Artifactory for troubleshooting, confirming package operations, and other related analyses.

Dashboards are dead; long live Reviews!

Dashboards are everywhere. We use them to inform us about the next big decision we need to make, understand the current state of our business, or see how our Engineering org is running. However, are dashboards actually useful? Are dashboards truly solving a problem for us? Ultimately, we don’t really want more data in our lives - we want answers. Getting these answers is not about adding another dashboard. It is about observing data and taking action to find answers that help us drive outcomes.

Reduce storage costs on CircleCI: Managing artifact, cache, and workspace retention

In this video, CircleCI’s Technical Success Manager, Adrian, walks you through simple yet effective strategies for managing storage costs on CircleCI. Learn how to adjust retention periods for artifacts, caches, and workspaces to significantly reduce credit usage each month. Adrian covers how to review storage usage in the CircleCI UI, identify high-storage components, and set optimal retention durations. Ideal for teams looking to lower overhead costs on CircleCI while maintaining efficient builds. Start saving credits and optimizing your storage strategy today!

Optimizing resource utilization with CircleCI: A guide to right-sizing

Learn how to maximize efficiency and minimize costs with CircleCI by right-sizing your resources. In this video, CircleCI's Technical Success Manager, Nic, demonstrates how to adjust resource allocations for jobs based on utilization trends, helping you optimize CPU and RAM usage, reduce credit consumption, and prevent resource overuse issues like out-of-memory errors. Discover tips on monitoring resource usage, leveraging the insights tab, and using CircleCI’s Usage API for automated tracking. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their CI/CD workflows and get the most out of CircleCI’s platform!

How to use CircleCI Support Center: Submitting tickets and accessing resources

CircleCI Technical Success Manager, Nico, guides you through using the CircleCI Support Center to efficiently resolve issues and access support. Learn how to navigate the Support Center, use the knowledge base, and utilize the AI widget for quick answers. Nico also explains how to submit a support ticket, ensuring it reaches the right team—whether for build issues, billing, or advisory services.

swampUP Recap: "EveryOps" is Trending as a Software Development Requirement

swampUP 2024, the annual JFrog DevOps Conference, was unique in it’s addressing not only more familiar DevOps and DevSecOps issues, but adding specific operational challenges, stemming from the explosive growth of GenAI and the resulting need for specialized capabilities for handling AI models and datasets, while supporting new personae such as AI/ML engineers, data scientists and MLOps professionals.

Dark theme for Bitbucket Cloud is here!

Software development requires a comfortable setup to be successful. If a key on your keyboard isn't working, it feels like nothing is working. Your chair, lights, monitor – they all come together to help you be productive. But what's on the screen matters too. If you're looking to improve your focus, reduce eye strain and lift your overall code review experience, Bitbucket Cloud now offers a dark theme option, a long-awaited feature among our most passionate users.

What is GitOps? Continuous delivery to Kubernetes with ArgoCD

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in recent years, there are various means and tools for achieving continuous delivery to Kubernetes. While it is possible to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline up to deploying to Kubernetes using CI/CD tools like CircleCI, there has been a rise in cases combining dedicated CD tools like FluxCD and ArgoCD to achieve this as well. A common aspect among these CD-dedicated tools is their adoption of GitOps.

Diligent Accelerates Secure Software Delivery with Cloudsmith

Discover how Diligent transformed its software delivery process with Cloudsmith’s universal package management platform. By centralizing security, automating workflows, and enhancing compliance, Diligent achieved significant efficiency gains and scalable operations. With real-time insights and reduced manual tasks, their teams can now focus on innovation.

Feature Store Benefits: The Advantages of Feature Stores in Machine Learning Development

Feature stores are rapidly growing in popularity as organizations look to improve their machine learning productivity and operations (MLOps). With the advancements in MLOps, feature stores are becoming an essential component of the machine learning infrastructure, helping organizations to improve the performance and ability to explain their models, and accelerate the integration of new models into the production.

Introducing shadow IT controls for workspace admins

Shadow IT is defined as the use of IT-related hardware or software by an individual without the knowledge of the IT admin. For example, if a user creates a new Bitbucket Cloud workspace within your organization without the knowledge of the organization admin, it can lead to potentially sensitive data being exposed.