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The Confident Commit | Ep. 13 Embrace simplicity: the #1 rule for software leaders

Rob sits down with Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO of Puppet to discuss the lessons they've learned through years as software leaders. Deepak shares the history and trajectory of Puppet, navigating shifting roles as your company scales, and his top leadership practices learned. Rob and Deepak dive into how to implement simplicity when complexity is often favored. Tune in today! And don't forget to Like and Subscribe to The Confident Commit podcast playlist for alerts to new episodes published biweekly.

What Is CI/CD and How to Build ETL Processes

In today’s world of heterogeneous data ecosystems, managing and consuming data can be cumbersome. Organizations often have multiple systems of truth in corresponding to the applications managing the data. While data engineers dream of software that would make it easy to consume and digest different data streams from disparate systems, that scenario rarely comes to fruition.

Topio + JFrog | Scaling Continuous Software Delivery for Edge & IoT Applications

Enterprises came to expect that software that underpins their business can change at the speed of the market. Cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps tools enable enterprises to continuously deploy software updates across data centers and public clouds. But things often get slowed down when trying to update applications across mixed environments and large fleets of edges and IoT devices.

Well-tested code: in search of meaningful coverage

If you work anywhere near the field of software development, you’ve likely already heard that you should always write code that is well-tested. Everyone wants to have well-tested code and for a good reason! Testing ensures our code is working as intended and protects against regression. Thoroughly testing code helps teams confidently ship software faster and with fewer issues.

How to easily track DORA metrics

With Sleuth, you can instantly and automatically track the four DORA metrics: Change Lead Time, Deploy Frequency, Change Failure Rate, and MTTR. No more, no less. Sleuth tracks them accurately, doesn't attempt to track dubious individual metrics, and doesn't require any manual work. SLEUTH A deploy-based Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

How to Reduce Change Lead Time

The time it takes to get a change into production, also known as Change Lead Time, is an important measure of developer productivity, and one of the four DORA metrics. In Sleuth, you can easily break down Change Lead Time into activities to get insights into potential bottlenecks. SLEUTH A deploy-based Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

An intro to Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of recording the desired state of your infrastructure using a declarative language. In this article, I’m going to assume that your team is starting from scratch. Maybe some of your build process has been scripted, and maybe there is some manual testing and quality assurance work happening. Many readers will find that they are midway through the IaC adoption journey I’ll describe, or that they have missed some steps.

JFrog and Upswift: Bringing IoT Software Updates to DevOps Upswift Acquistion

JFrog has acquired Upswift to bring the world of connected devices into the DevOps pipeline! Managing fleets of devices and edge applications remotely - including over-the-air (OTA) updates, security, monitoring, controlling and more - has quickly become unwieldy for most companies, with growth of connected devices expected to reach 24 billion in 2026. But, most of today’s DevOps solutions are not optimized or built to deliver software updates to distributed edge and IoT environments.