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Is it time to switch CI/CD platforms? 7 warning signs

Jun 25, 2025 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
Every engineering team eventually faces this question: “Is our CI/CD setup actually helping us, or is it getting in the way?” The answer isn’t always obvious. CI/CD problems often develop gradually: small issues become accepted workarounds, and those workarounds become standard practice. What once worked well for your team might not fit your current needs or scale. The decision to evaluate new tooling usually builds over time as pain points accumulate and priorities shift.
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Understanding Playwright test hooks in the CI context (JavaScript) - A complete tutorial

Jun 23, 2025 By Waweru Mwaura In CircleCI
All applications need some form of testing, whether frontend, backend, stress testing, or any other. Playwright can help. Playwright is an end-to-end testing framework for web applications, supporting cross-browser testing (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) from a single API. Its built-in test runner (Playwright Test) provides hook functions to manage set-up and tear-down logic around your tests.
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Validating OS-compatibility for locally-run LLMs using Ollama with CI/CD matrix workflows

Jun 23, 2025 By Muhammad Arham In CircleCI
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly accessible, with regular adoption of open-source models and the growing ecosystem of tools for running them locally. Compact versions are now able to run on consumer-grade hardware, so developers are using LLMs on personal devices like Linux workstations, macOS laptops, or even Windows machines. As this trend grows, so does the need to ensure that your LLM-powered applications run reliably across all major operating systems.
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Evolving deployments in Bitbucket Pipelines: Concurrency Groups and Environments

Jun 23, 2025 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
We’re excited to announce that Bitbucket Cloud is introducing two powerful new features in Bitbucket Pipelines: Concurrency Groups and Environments. These enhancements are part of a broader initiative to make the Deployments functionality more flexible and user-friendly by breaking down its current monolithic structure into smaller, more granular capabilities that you can control directly.
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Risk and the problems of 3rd party software dependencies

Jun 20, 2025 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Docker's VP of Product, Michael Donovan, discusses the importance of risk management and the security challenges introduced by the scale of 3rd party software dependency in development. See the full webinar: https:/cloudsmith.com/webinars Get to know Cloudsmith: About Cloudsmith We offer the world's best cloud-native artifact management platform to control, secure, and distribute everything that flows through your software supply chain. Cloudsmith operates at enterprise scale, reduces risk, and streamlines builds.
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OWASP CI/CD Part 8: Ungoverned Usage of 3rd Party Services

Jun 20, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
The boundaries of what organizations build internally and what they adopt externally have blurred. Developers routinely integrate third-party services into critical CI/CD pipelines, often with minimal friction and limited oversight. This rapid plug-and-play convenience, while key to modern engineering velocity, is also quietly expanding the attack surface in ways many teams struggle to track - let alone govern.
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Adding AI to applications using the Model Context Protocol

Jun 20, 2025 By Ian Taylor In Cloudsmith
Large Language Models (LLMs) are now at the cutting edge of mainstream AI systems. Their impact has been seismic, sparking a new gold rush as application developers transform the user experience away from clicks and commands into natural language and advanced automation. However, application developers have a barrier to overcome. AI models need data to reason and respond to a particular application domain.
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