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

What Is Platform Engineering?

If DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes collaboration between Development and Operations teams, then Platform Engineering operationalizes that approach by creating a centralized platform that has specific sets of tools and processes. It’s the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in a cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering: The Key to Successful Digital Transformation for the Enterprise

Explore how Platform Engineering can transform your enterprise and empower individual teams to work and ship independently, while maintaining compliance and governance requirements, through a centralised system. Discover: How CircleCI can help make platform engineering an integral part of their internal development platform. How to easily centralise essential components such as development processes, testing, infrastructure provisioning, project management, and observability. How platform teams operate in large organisations.

Part II: A Journey of a Thousand Binaries - The Challenges with Software Dependencies

In part one of this series, we looked at what is a dependency, different types of dependencies, and their benefits in our code. In part two, we’ll look at the risks of using dependencies. Whenever we add a dependency we are increasing the risks of any software development cycle.

Static credential management for platform engineers

Cloud CI/CD is a force multiplier for development teams, especially those working remotely. Automated CI/CD takes load off of developers, allowing them to focus on building better products. Hosted CI/CD adds further benefit to this, ensuring that this newfound capacity isn’t spent managing the testing and deployment infrastructure, and that remote team members have easy access to CI/CD tools.

Monitor your TeamCity builds with Datadog CI Visibility

As the complexity of modern software development lifecycles increase, it’s important to have a comprehensive monitoring solution for your continuous integration (CI) pipelines so that you can quickly pinpoint and triage issues, especially when you have a large number of pipelines running.

SLSA 1.0 is here! What's it mean for you?

Any organization that has taken on the daunting task of securing their software supply chain knows the challenges, pitfalls and caveats that come with implementing security best practices. SLSA 1.0, a community-backed framework that provides a comprehensive checklist of security controls and standards, is here! So what does it mean for you and your organization? This session gathers SLSA experts from across the industry to discuss the practical uses of the framework.

DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins of Heavybit

In this episode, Rob sits down with the DevOps “party starter” himself, Jesse Robbins, to discuss the current state of software delivery. Is DevOps really dead, or are we simply witnessing a maturing model as organizations grow and evolve? Tune it to hear Jesse’s valuable take on where he sees the industry moving and the potential complexities on the horizon.

Improve engineering teams faster with DORA metrics

We talk with numerous teams that want to improve their engineering performance. Here, we explain how to accelerate your progress using DORA metrics — a set of key performance indicators that can help you measure and optimize your team's software development process. You'll learn practical tips on how to leverage these metrics to achieve faster and more efficient team improvement. But first, you'll need your team to see the value in DORA metrics.