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Balancing Speed and Safety with Continuous Delivery

The benefits of continuous delivery are well known these days: rapid feedback, speed of innovation, reduced fault recovery time, and increased confidence in release processes. Along the same lines, those who release less frequently are likely to encounter more stress. Continuous delivery is a spectrum; it doesn’t have to mean blasting every commit to all production environments at once. So, how do we strike a balance between speed and safety?

Patterns for safe and efficient cache purging in CI/CD pipelines

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."—Phil Karlton In the age of increasingly frequent deploys, edge caching, and Jamstack adoption, caching plays a key role across the software delivery life cycle. In build and CI pipelines, caching compiled assets or dependencies helps reduce compute costs, speed up job runtimes, and lower the environmental impact (regarding energy usage) of repeated builds.

The Innovation vs. Control Syndrome: Unlocking Enterprise AI's Full Potential

From optimizing supply chains to personalizing customer experiences, artificial intelligence and machine learning models are no longer statistics-based revenue initiatives; they’re foundational to modern business strategy. Organizations are pouring resources into developing and deploying AI, driven by the promise of unprecedented efficiency, insight, and competitive advantage. Yet, beneath this surging wave of innovation lies a growing tension: the Innovation vs. Control Syndrome.

The strategic art of build vs. buy in software delivery ft. Tara Hernandez of MongoDB

Rob Zuber sits down with Tara Hernandez, VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB and former Netscape engineer who helped create early continuous integration systems, to explore strategic frameworks for build vs. buy decisions in modern software delivery.

Introducing parent/child pipelines

We’re excited to announce the launch of parent/child pipelines for Bitbucket Pipelines. This powerful new capability lets you define a step within a pipeline that triggers and encapsulates a whole other pipeline, which can help to streamline more complex workflows into modular pieces and achieve greater parallelism within your pipeline.

Set up preview deployments for pull requests using CircleCI and Vercel

Working in front-end development involves writing features and bug fixes in different branches. But how do you ensure that reviewers, testers, and other stakeholders find it easy to view changes? Using preview deployments is one solution. Preview deployments allow you to automatically create a live URL each time someone opens a pull request (PR). It’s like giving every branch its mini website so that changes can be tested and proven in isolation.

JFrog Deployed on AWS: The Foundation for Cloud-Native Excellence

We are delighted to share the exciting news that JFrog has earned the “Deployed on AWS” badge in AWS Marketplace, marking yet another milestone in our journey of innovation and collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This achievement underscores our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions that leverage AWS’s robust infrastructure to enhance the user experience and drive efficiency.

Free for the Community, Built by JFrog: Introducing the DSSE Attestation Online Decoder

Attestations, or as we like to call them, evidence, are a critical piece to proving software supply chain integrity and security. However, without the right tools and processes, reviewing and verifying attestations can be time-consuming. At JFrog, we’re deeply committed to empowering developers, DevOps, and Security teams to make these complex workstreams as simple as possible.

Platform Team Toolkit: Governance that accelerates developer velocity

Platform engineering teams face a critical challenge: scaling software delivery across dozens of development teams without killing innovation and velocity. The traditional approach forces an impossible choice: rigid standardization or operational chaos. Platform teams get buried in manual configuration requests, security updates take weeks to roll out, and compliance gaps emerge from inconsistent practices and developer workarounds.