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Cloudsmith 2024: By the Numbers

2024 was a year of incredible stories. At Cloudsmith, we had the privilege of being part of our customers' journeys as they reached significant milestones, driving growth, innovation, and strengthened trust across the globe. Our customers led the way, leveraging Cloudsmith’s capabilities to enhance their workflows, scale their operations, and secure their software supply chains. Let’s explore the amazing progress our community made together and the stories behind these achievements.

Mastering Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS DevOps Consulting

Modern DevOps depends heavily on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which lets companies control and provide their IT infrastructure using code instead of hand-written procedures. Because of its adaptability and fit with many cloud providers, including AWS, Terraform, an open-source IaC tool developed by HashiCorp, has become a favorite alternative for many. The basis of Terraform, how it interacts with AWS, and how AWS DevOps consultancy might enhance your IaC procedures are investigated in this article.

Don't let flaky tests disrupt continuous integration

Testing is supposed to help you ship better code, faster. But unreliable tests can leave you rerunning CI, wading through flakes, and questioning your life choices every time a failure blocks your merge. Join the product team that built Test Analytics for a no-fluff session on how they tackle CI-clogging frustrations and what you can do to keep failed and flaky tests from slowing you down—so you can finally merge the d*$@# code.

Supercharge your pipeline with 16x step sizes

Earlier this year, we took a significant step forward by announcing our new CI/CD runtime, complete with 4x and 8x build sizes as part of our commitment to improve performance. As our users continue to work on increasingly complex projects, the demand for greater computational power has become evident. In response, we are excited to introduce the 16x build size.

Kubernetes Cost Efficiency and Performance Optimization: Best Practices for Managing Your Cluster

As organizations increasingly embrace Kubernetes for container orchestration, optimizing both cost and performance has become a critical challenge. Kubernetes, with its flexible and powerful features, allows for efficient resource management, but without proper configuration and monitoring, it can also lead to over-provisioning, wasted resources, and skyrocketing costs.