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Encountering some turbulence on Bitbucket's journey to a new platform

The past week has been a turbulent time for Bitbucket Cloud's engineering and support teams as well as our customers. Some of you have expressed concern regarding our services’ performance and reliability in recent days. Fortunately, for the majority of Bitbucket users, our services have continued to perform smoothly. But given the number of developers who use Bitbucket daily, even a small percentage of our active users represents a lot of people.

How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing

Slack experienced meteoric growth between 2017 and 2020—but that level of growth came with growing pains. In his talk at the 2021 o11ycon+hnycon, Frank Chen (LinkedIn), a Slack Senior Staff Engineer, detailed one of Slack’s biggest pain points in that period: flaky tests. A flaky test returns both a passing and failing result despite no changes in the code. At one point, between 2017 and 2020, Slack’s flaky test rate reached as high as 50%.

CI/CD Pipeline: A Quick Guide

Fast and reliable build pipelines are crucial to the success of modern day engineering teams. Check out this quick guide that can help DevOps/SRE teams to streamline the integration of development and testing processes through CI/CD tools. All software companies are committed to providing services that are useful, appreciated, and shared. Therefore, it all boils down to delivering reliable software to users and consumers.

JFrog And Red Hat DevSecOps Security Series

Accurately detecting and mitigating security vulnerabilities is critical for any enterprise. JFrog’s ongoing collaboration with Red Hat provides the DevOps community with enterprise-grade DevSecOps capabilities, enabling you to deliver high-quality, and more secure software, anywhere. As part of the Red Hat DevSecOps Security Series, Join us on July 1st for JFrog & Red Hat’s perspective on application analysis and how JFrog’s recently achieved Vulnerability Scanner Certification helps identify vulnerabilities in applications, images and configurations early in your lifecycle.

The Confident Commit | Episode 6: Architecture meets delivery with Chris Richardson

Rob interviews Chris Richardson on how engineering metrics can help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their architecture. The two discuss how a team's architecture can enable or inhibit their ability to make changes quickly and confidently. How do you balance rapid delivery and finding product-market fit with getting to a stable, workable system over time? Tune in today!

Intercept Security Scans with Vulnerability Webhooks

Security scanning provides an opportunity to target, track, and trace vulnerabilities introduced to your packages as soon as Cloudsmith has received a complete package upload. However what happens when you want to intercept the results of a scan immediately. An early warning can make a difference when distributing vulnerable packages to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of developers, devices, or systems globally.