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Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Automated Policy Checks

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines power modern DevOps. They enable teams to deliver software faster, with greater reliability and confidence. However, as development accelerates, ensuring security, compliance, and quality becomes increasingly complex. Automated policy checks streamline CI/CD pipelines by addressing these challenges directly.

The Power of Evidence Collection and Release Lifecycle Management

The speed of today’s software development lifecycle is only getting faster. However, the complexity of today’s pipelines make it hard to track and manage the processes software releases must go through. With increasing regulatory pressures, ensuring and proving your software has gone through the necessary quality controls is no longer nice to have – it has become a necessity.

Software Development Life Cycle: SDLC phases and best practices

The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is a methodology that provides a structured process for developing high-quality software in a timely and cost-effective manner. The SDLC outlines software development as a series of tasks, creating a management framework focused on efficiency and quality. Software development is a tightly interwoven process that balances costs, deadlines, and capabilities.

Introduction to developer experience: What, why, and how

The core concept of developer experience (or DevEx) is simple: happy developers are more effective developers. Great developer experiences create opportunities for success, while poor DevEx leads to frustration and delays. Though the concept is easy to grasp, real-world developer experiences depend on many complex factors.

Unlocking efficiency with CircleCI's new multi-repo project model

In a traditional CI/CD pipeline, the instructions for how your pipeline should run are stored in the same repository as your application code, creating a rigid 1:1 relationship between your pipeline and project code. This approach has benefits, like keeping pipeline logic close to the code it supports, but it also introduces challenges, especially for organizations managing multiple repositories or microservices.

Secure and Compliant Software Delivery with Cloudsmith Policy Management

Managing software artifacts across distributed teams and complex infrastructures securely demands proactive measures. Robust policy management is the best way to ensure compliance in your software supply chain. Cloudsmith, the leading cloud-native package management platform, can streamline policy management and strengthen security. Let’s explore why policy management matters and how we can simplify it for you.

MLOps Your Way with the JFrog Platform

Just like in traditional software development, creating AI applications isn’t a one size fits all approach. However, many of the challenges and concerns facing AI/ML development teams share common threads – difficulties getting models to production, tangled infrastructure, data quality, security issues, and so on.

Top Continuous Integration Tools: Spotlight on Jenkins CI/CD

Are you tired of producing high-quality code fast, in the right way, based on the size of your organization? Code changes must be deployed reliably, successfully, and quickly. It helps teams catch problems early, enhances code quality, and speeds up delivery timelines. This comprehensive blog will dig into everything related to CI, from understanding its benefits and best practices to deploying CI. We will also show how ACCELQ could ease your continuous integration and allow your team members to catch up in the tech market.

JFrog Academy - JFrog Artifactory: Repositories Management

Unlock the full potential of your software development process with the JFrog Artifactory - Repositories Management course! This free, self-paced course will guide you through everything you need to know about managing repositories, improving DevOps workflows, and optimizing your software supply chain. Learn how to: Subscribe for more tutorials, tips, and insights into DevOps, CI/CD, and management.

Calculating the business value of software delivery

For engineering leaders and technology decision-makers, CI/CD metrics have always been more than just operational measurements – they’re direct indicators of developer experience and team productivity. Every failed build, slow pipeline, or delayed deployment directly impacts your developers’ ability to deliver value.

Breaking Silos: Unifying DevOps and MLOps into a Cohesive Software Supply Chain - Part 3

The synergy between DevOps and MLOps is more crucial now than ever. However, merging these two paradigms into a coherent software supply chain poses a unique set of challenges that can leave teams feeling overwhelmed. From the complexities of managing model dependencies to adapting conventional CI/CD tools for advanced machine learning (ML) workflows, the path to integration isn’t without its twists and turns.

Cloudsmith 2024: By the Numbers

2024 was a year of incredible stories. At Cloudsmith, we had the privilege of being part of our customers' journeys as they reached significant milestones, driving growth, innovation, and strengthened trust across the globe. Our customers led the way, leveraging Cloudsmith’s capabilities to enhance their workflows, scale their operations, and secure their software supply chains. Let’s explore the amazing progress our community made together and the stories behind these achievements.

Mastering Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS DevOps Consulting

Modern DevOps depends heavily on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which lets companies control and provide their IT infrastructure using code instead of hand-written procedures. Because of its adaptability and fit with many cloud providers, including AWS, Terraform, an open-source IaC tool developed by HashiCorp, has become a favorite alternative for many. The basis of Terraform, how it interacts with AWS, and how AWS DevOps consultancy might enhance your IaC procedures are investigated in this article.

Don't let flaky tests disrupt continuous integration

Testing is supposed to help you ship better code, faster. But unreliable tests can leave you rerunning CI, wading through flakes, and questioning your life choices every time a failure blocks your merge. Join the product team that built Test Analytics for a no-fluff session on how they tackle CI-clogging frustrations and what you can do to keep failed and flaky tests from slowing you down—so you can finally merge the d*$@# code.

Supercharge your pipeline with 16x step sizes

Earlier this year, we took a significant step forward by announcing our new CI/CD runtime, complete with 4x and 8x build sizes as part of our commitment to improve performance. As our users continue to work on increasingly complex projects, the demand for greater computational power has become evident. In response, we are excited to introduce the 16x build size.

Kubernetes Cost Efficiency and Performance Optimization: Best Practices for Managing Your Cluster

As organizations increasingly embrace Kubernetes for container orchestration, optimizing both cost and performance has become a critical challenge. Kubernetes, with its flexible and powerful features, allows for efficient resource management, but without proper configuration and monitoring, it can also lead to over-provisioning, wasted resources, and skyrocketing costs.