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Containers vs virtual machines: what is the difference?

In computing, virtualization is the creation of a virtual — as opposed to a physical — version of computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and network resources. Virtualization creates virtual resources from physical resources, like hard drives, central processing units (CPUs), and graphic processing units (GPUs). By virtualizing resources, you can combine a network of resources into what appears to users as one object.

Announcing issue-initiated Change Lead Time

Sleuth is pleased to announce a new option to start your Change Lead Time clock based on state transitions in your issue tracker! In our ongoing effort to meet customers where they are, we heard from many of you that you’d like Sleuth to account for and provide visibility into your pre-commit coding time. We’re pleased to offer this this new option to tell Sleuth which specific state transitions in your issue tracker should start your Change Lead Time clock!

Share secrets with standalone projects with project context restrictions

Introducing project context restrictions for GitLab organizations. This feature enables project-based restrictions on contexts for standalone projects that are not tied to a VCS. Standalone projects are available at this time only with a GitLab integration with CircleCI. In this blog post, we hope to explain the value of this feature and how it can be used to further secure your workflows.

How to Gain Observability into Your CI/CD Pipeline

We all know that observability is a must-have for operating systems in production. But we often neglect our own backyard — our software release process. We noticed we made that mistake here at Logz.io. We were wasting time and energy in handling failures in the CI/CD pipeline, and made our Developer-on-Duty (DoD) shifts tedious. That’s why it’s critical to incorporate your observability practices into your CI/CD pipeline.

GitLab CI/CD Job Templates!

Like I’ve mentioned in my last blog post, we use GitLab pipelines for packaging. We have a lot of software, like Icinga, Icingaweb and its various modules, which we want to build across multiple different operating systems. This results in a huge number of jobs and pipelines, doing very similar stuff. We have a lot of code repetition, and this is bad – code repetition means higher code maintenance , and it invites bugs.

Atlassian DevOps Talks Fireside Chat with the CICD industry

Atlassian Open DevOps presents DevOps Talks. Join continuous integration continuous deployment (CICD) experts from Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Harness, and Octopus Deploy as they share lessons from implementing pipelines for development teams of all topologies, sizes, and industries. In this 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn.

Component testing vs unit testing

Testing is a vital part of the software development lifecycle. It plays an important role in the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, enabling developers to release dependable, resilient, and secure software consistently. There are many types of testing and testing methodologies: end-to-end testing, dynamic testing, integration testing, and others. This article focuses on component testing and unit testing.

Measuring Developer Productivity: Can, How, and Should You Do It?

Productivity is a big topic. We all want to be more productive — and software developers in particular get put under the microscope. Interestingly, their work is also particularly difficult to measure and assess what “productive” even is. But we need to do it because we want developers to be more productive — and happier — because we want to achieve business goals together, better.