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The latest News and Information on Continuous Integration and Development, and related technologies.

Polyglot persistence vs multi-model databases for microservices

Microservice architecture is an application system design pattern in which an entire business application is composed of individual functional scoped services, which can scale on demand. Each team focuses on an individual service and builds it according to their skillset or language of choice. In addition to flexibility, this pattern provides: These features have made microservices architecture a popular choice for enterprises.

Get More From Your JFrog Platform Using the Cloud Marketplaces

These days, organizations of all types, sizes and industries are using the cloud for a wide variety of business reasons and use cases. Benefits include agility, elasticity, cost savings, ease of deployment, ease of management, ease of procurement and ability to leverage cutting edge technologies. JFrog customers are no different. Indeed, JFrog recognizes that many customers want a hybrid cloud approach with the ability to work across multi-clouds.

Speed up XCUITest execution with parallelism and test splitting

In this article, I’ll show you how to reduce the execution time of XCUITest (UI tests on iOS simulators) by splitting and running them in parallel. Automated tests and CI/CD platforms like CircleCI are necessary for iOS application development. It is important not only to introduce them once but to improve them continuously. When application code grows and automated tests increase, the execution time of build and test in CI/CD gets longer.

The Future of CI/CD: Challenge on the Horizon

Over the last 10 years, software development has shifted. Modern teams build applications on top of third-party dependencies, open source libraries, and more, which has dramatically increased complexity. With so much complexity in software development, how can today’s dev teams build with speed and agility while avoiding risk? Join CircleCI CTO, Rob Zuber, in the first of three executive webinars aimed at empowering CircleCI customers to optimize their software delivery practices.

Expanding the security frontier with JFrog Xray

How are you currently addressing the challenges of securing your software supply chain? In today’s world it’s essential to go beyond just standard security tools when safeguarding your applications from development to production? But it doesn’t need a plethora of point solutions to do that. The JFrog DevSecOps Platform can take care of it. Expand the software security frontier and join the JFrog Product Management team, as they discuss how JFrog Xray provides intelligent supply chain security and compliance at DevOps speed.

Software Delivery Platforms to Benefit DevOps Practices

In this era where applications are taking over the world, delivering the service to your customer with scalability and security is of the utmost importance. The software delivery platform helps to manage the data flow, traffic management, and security of the data from both sides of the application. If you are studying software delivery platforms, then most of you must have heard about the Codefresh software delivery platform for continuous integration and continuous deployment of the application.

Introducing the CircleCI Config SDK

We are excited to announce the new CircleCI Config SDK is now available as an open-source TypeScript library. Developers can now write and manage their CircleCI config.yml files using TypeScript and JavaScript. For developers used to the ecosystem and flexibility of a full-fledged programming language, sometimes YAML can feel limiting or intimidating. With the Config SDK you can define and generate your YAML config from type-safe and annotated JavaScript.

The DORA metrics backstory

DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard for measuring engineering efficiency, but where did they come from? ‍ We talk a lot about DORA metrics here at Sleuth — what they are and how to measure them. But we haven’t shared much about the context of DORA metrics — their history and why we use them. So let’s do that. This article provides a summary.

How Rush Capped Time to Resolution by Integrating Sentry With Their With CI/CD Pipeline

Rated as the top order tracking and revenue generation app on Shopify, Rush lets businesses build and personalize their own dashboards to manage the post-sale process with real-time data, custom product recommendations, and user feedback. Their business model focuses on low touch and user-centered design (UCD), which leaves little room for issues impacting how people interact with the platform.