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Integrate CircleCI with Railway for automated deployments

The speed and reliability of deploying backend and full-stack applications are usually a concern for development teams. Fortunately, Railway is a developer-friendly platform that allows you to deploy apps with limited configuration. It is also quick, easy to use, and has reasonable defaults. Now, imagine pairing that with CircleCI, one of the strongest continuous integration platforms available.

Black Friday is 30 days away. Your engineering infrastructure might not be ready

If you're anything like your peers, you probably blinked in April and found yourself a month away from Black Friday when you opened your eyes. Much like a shopper desperately scrambling to pull together gift lists for their loved ones, many engineering teams find themselves rushing to ensure their systems can handle the biggest shopping day of the year.

Why Your Next ITSM Agent Won't Be Human (and Why That's a Good Thing)

For a very long time now, IT leaders have relied on the “throw more bodies at it” strategy: when ticket volumes rise, headcount follows. That model no longer works. Hybrid work, SaaS sprawl, and cloud complexity have made human-only scaling unsustainable. The enterprises winning today aren’t scaling with headcount. They’re scaling with autonomous ITSM agents: AI-driven specialists that resolve tickets instantly, escalate only when needed, and keep operations running 24/7.

Introducing JFrog Fly: The World's First Agentic Artifact Repository

AI has created a paradigm shift in software development. AI-native development teams – from small startups to enterprises like Goldman Sachs and Google – are adopting agentic development tools like Cursor and Copilot to increase the speed of code generation to a pace we’ve never seen before. But with all this new code comes a big challenge: how do you manage all these potential new releases and get the right ones deployed?

Navigating the geopolitical maze of digital sovereignty at Civo Navigate London 2025

Trust in Big Tech is eroding. Geopolitical tensions are rising. The only predictable thing about the cloud today is that it’s time to re-evaluate everything. At Civo Navigate London 2025, we pulled together a panel of industry experts to cut through the noise and finally define what digital sovereignty means for the UK.
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Avantra + Ansible: Better Together for Enterprise SAP Automation

Enterprises trust Ansible for fast, reliable infrastructure automation, including terraform for automated cloud provisioning. Many organizations using Ansible leverage Ansible SAP playbooks for SAP infrastructure automation. Avantra extends the scope of SAP operations using Ansible, adding observability, ITSM and ALM solution integration, and orchestration across the SAP estate. Avantra and Ansible together provide a closed-loop solution where monitoring, automation and proof of outcome live in one place across on-premise, hyperscaler and private cloud ERP implementations.

Settle Your QA Debt Before the Bugs Start Breaking Kneecaps

In Part One, we discussed how QA debt builds silently over time — causing slower releases, late-night firefights, and unpredictable test cycles. The next step is understanding how much debt you have and where it hides. This post goes deeper into measuring QA debt — what to track, how to collect data, and how to use those insights to create a sustainable plan for improvement.

Validate CDC data in your CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI

Change Data Capture (CDC) is a technique used to identify and capture changes, such as inserts, updates, and deletes, in a source database so they can be replicated to another system in real-time. This approach is crucial in modern data pipelines, especially for powering data lakes, analytics platforms, and event-driven applications that depend on up-to-date information. Setting up a CDC pipeline is only the first step.

Data Sovereignty + AI: How Civo's New Cloud Gives You Full Control

We spot the tipping point: AI is reshaping every industry and data has become the new oil. From law firms to pharma labs, SaaS stacks to even a secret chicken recipe, today’s most valuable info is trapped in a handful of hyperscalers with almost no governance. Our UK‑based survey of 1,000 IT leaders shows the pressure is real. Most are ready to abandon big‑tech for true control and sovereignty. Civo’s answer is a new kind of cloud: built from the ground up, 100 % data‑sovereignty, and designed for more value, simplicity, and flexibility.