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Visualize Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines: Introducing the New Jenkins Data Source Plugin in Grafana 12.2

Grafana 12.2 introduces the new Jenkins data source plugin, giving you real-time insights into your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. With easy setup, you can connect your Jenkins instance and explore two built-in dashboards: See how Jenkins data becomes instantly actionable inside Grafana.

Build a versatile query agent with RAG, LlamaIndex, and Google Gemini

As a developer, you often face the challenge of retrieving information from multiple sources with different structures. What if you could create a single interface that automatically routes queries to the right data source? Imagine your application needing to answer both “What’s the population of California?” and “What are popular attractions in Hawaii?”.

Introducing Chunk: The agent that validates code at AI speed

The software development landscape has fundamentally shifted. Teams are shipping more value faster than ever, leveraging AI to generate code at unprecedented speed. But with this velocity comes equally dramatic complexity — small teams now face challenges that once belonged only to large organizations, while large organizations grapple with codebases that strain human comprehension. This complexity isn’t a bug — it’s a productivity opportunity to embrace.

Meet Rovo Chat in Bitbucket: your AI-powered teammate

We’re excited to announce that we are starting a phased rollout of Rovo Chat in Bitbucket Cloud today! It will be available to 100% of users by September 30th, 2025. To check if it’s available on your account, look for the Rovo Chat button in your top navigation. Rovo is Atlassian’s AI-powered teammate that helps you find what matters, learn faster, and take action right in your workflow.

The real reason your AI initiatives are failing

AI has made it faster and easier to change a codebase than ever before. But in a system as complex and interdependent as modern software delivery, writing code has never been the biggest challenge. For most teams, the real constraint is getting that code safely into production. So while AI assistants and autonomous coding agents have dramatically accelerated the pace of change, for many organizations those changes are piling up against bottlenecks that were already slowing them down.

Strategic career decisions ft. Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo

In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob Zuber sits down with Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and author of "The Engineering Leader," for a deep dive into career ownership and sustainable engineering leadership. Cate challenges the common misconception that career growth equals promotion, introducing the concept of being the "directly responsible individual" for your own career and the crucial difference between "buying" versus "renting" your skills in the marketplace.

Unlocking insights: Introducing Step Metrics for Bitbucket Pipelines

We’re excited to announce step metrics – a new capability coming to Bitbucket Pipelines to help you better manage and optimise your CI/CD workflows. Ever wondered what’s happening under the hood during your pipeline runs? Step metrics provide a window into the resource usage of your build and service containers. More specifically, step metrics let you monitor CPU and memory usage for each build and service container in your pipeline steps.

Build and deploy a Pinecone question answering RAG application

Vector databases allow you to store, manage, and efficiently query high-dimensional vector data, which are numerical representations of data like text, images, or audio. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database optimized for fast, scalable similarity search—to power a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. This allows you to enhance language model responses by grounding them in relevant context retrieved from your own documents.

Automating GDPR compliance for web applications with CircleCI

Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance has been an important milestone in the evolution of privacy laws for web application users across Europe. GDPR requires companies to obtain explicit user consent for data collection and processing, and only for specified, legitimate purposes. It’s a law based on principles of transparency and purpose limitation. This law applies to global companies dealing with EU citizen data, giving individuals control over personal data.

Unprecedented industry turbulence: leading through change ft. Pat Kua, author of LevelUp newsletter

Engineering leadership has never been more challenging, or more critical. In this episode, Rob sits down with Pat Kua, seasoned technology leader, author of three books including Building Evolutionary Architectures, and creator of the popular Level Up newsletter for technical leaders.