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The difference between "Cloud Native" and "Cloud Hosted" products lies in their architecture, design philosophy, and how they leverage cloud infrastructure. Let’s break down the key distinctions.

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.

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.

When selecting a cloud migration partner, it’s essential to evaluate their capabilities, experience, and alignment with your business needs. Here’s a guide on what to look for.

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.

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.

Package promotion workflows are a great way to isolate and protect production repositories away from public upstreams, so they only receive clear and vetted packages.

By popular demand, we are happy to introduce several new strategies for syncing and merging branches in Bitbucket Cloud. Our goal is to provide you the full functionality of rebase and merge within the Bitbucket UI to help you manage your Git history according to your team's preferences. These new options have been among our most highly voted feature requests. In brief, here's what we've added.