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Speedscale: Avoid Regulatory Icebergs with Traffic Replay, and Save Money

It has never been more critical to establish a solid foundation for regulatory compliance. Regulations govern a wide range of functions. Some of them are obvious, such as health and human services, patient data, medical devices, and credit payments. Some of them are less obvious, especially with the ever-changing definition of what constitutes private and identifiable data. This article provides an overview of regulatory compliance challenges and the hidden risks organizations face beneath the surface.

Agentic Workflows That Actually Work (and Don't Take Six Months to Deploy)

There’s a hard truth in IT: everyone wants automation, but nobody wants to wait six months (or more) to get it off the ground. Traditional automation initiatives are often bogged down in backlog, scripting complexity, and integration chaos. That’s exactly what makes agentic workflows different. Agentic workflows don’t just automate tasks; they act. They understand intent, operate autonomously, and improve over time.

Zero downtime deployments to Render using CircleCI

Downtime during deployments can affect the performance of your work. Data can be lost, and trust in your application can be destroyed. Luckily, zero downtime deployments do not need to be complex or involve a big infrastructure. This tutorial will teach you to establish a stable CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI and Render to automatically test and deploy a basic React application.

Less Overhead, More Impact: The Cycle Approach

Every company is now a software company. While the industry gets caught up in buzzwords and complexity, the core question remains: How can my organization reduce costs without creating long-term problems, and without giving up security or speed? The Cycle platform was built to answer this. It offers a lower total cost of ownership, simplifies operations at scale through automation and standards, and is secure by default without slowing down development.

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 demo

Platform teams face an impossible choice: rigid standardization that slows developers down, or operational chaos that creates security gaps. CircleCI's new Platform Team Toolkit eliminates this tradeoff by delivering self-service developer experiences with built-in governance. What You'll See in This Demo: Key Benefits: Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders who need to scale software delivery without sacrificing speed or safety.

Stop Committing Too Soon With This Git Hack!

Need just one commit from another branch — but don’t want to commit it yet? In this episode of Wait… Git Can Do That?, we show you how to use git cherry-pick -n to stage changes without committing. Perfect for bundling, editing, or staging carefully Keeps history clean Bonus: In GitKraken Desktop, cherry-pick visually and decide when to commit More control. Less commit anxiety. Subscribe for more Git tricks and GitKraken power moves.

400 Million Reasons Hackers Will Target Microsoft Again...

Yesterday, like many others in the tech community, I found myself pausing to fully grasp the implications of the Microsoft SharePoint hack. As one of the most widely adopted document management and collaboration platforms globally, SharePoint’s compromise inevitably sends ripples of concern through businesses everywhere. This news reminded me of a conversation I had just last week with an enterprise customer. We were discussing how one might approach cybersecurity from a hacker’s perspective.

Vendor lock-in and the fight for UK digital sovereignty

To read more on the findings from this research, visit the Digital Sovereignty Revolution whitepaper by clicking here. For years, global hyperscalers have been the backbone of cloud infrastructure for UK businesses. Their scale, reach, and performance made them the default choice. But as geopolitical uncertainty grows and concerns around data governance deepen, the cracks in this model are beginning to show.