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

A Decade of DevOps Design Patterns for Future Proofing your DevOps Strategy

It’s been more than a decade since the term “DevOps” was coined. Since then, DevOps has evolved, with more tools, technologies and processes to enable unparalleled digital transformation. The next decade and beyond promise even more innovation as DevOps becomes even more ingrained in the software delivery life cycle. But what’s next? And how can organisations prepare?

Demystifying CI/CD - Beyond the hype into reality

Are you taking advantage of the best practices and tools available to ensure the security and reliability of your software development and deployment in the cloud? Join Kelsey Hightower (Google Cloud) and Melissa McKay (JFrog) to discover the strategies and toolsets you need to maintain a reliable development and delivery infrastructure. Learn how to effectively implement a real CI/CD solution, all the way from a Git commit to a container running in your cluster.

Caching and Upstream Proxying For Maven Packages

Managing dependencies is a fact of life in modern software development. But at Cloudsmith, we’re focused on ensuring that the process is as painless as possible. To that end, we’re delighted to announce both upstream proxying and caching for Maven packages. Together they mean simpler, more reliable integration of third party packages into the development process. Better software, faster.

CI/CD: What is continuous delivery?

In the first article, we talked about CI or Continuous Integration. This post looks at the second half of the CI/CD acronym, Continuous Delivery. Continuous delivery takes the build originating in the CI process and puts it into an acceptance environment for further evaluation before promoting the code to production (the released version). To back up a moment, CI is the planning, coding, testing, and building of software in a rapidly repeating process.