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Cloudsmith Supports OpenSSF's Efforts to Secure OSS

As part of our mission to make it simple to secure software at scale through Continuous Packaging, Cloudsmith is excited to announce that we have become an Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) member. OpenSSF is a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve security in open source software (OSS). One software pipeline's output is another's dependency- we are all splashing around in each other's supply chains.

The Anatomy of a Rollback Deployment Workflow

Your new release tested fine on staging, but it’s not playing nicely with applications and services in the wild. Your monitoring application notices something going wrong and raises the alarm. But often raising the alarm isn’t enough – to solve complex issues, you might need to roll back to the last good deployment while you figure out the root cause and get multiple people working together on the solution.

Go 1.18 released on Upsun

As of yesterday, the team behind Go has released a new version 1.18 with some significant changes to the language. Those of you who want to start using these new features are in luck: you can do it right away on Upsun. If you’re already using Go on Upsun, you can upgrade by changing the number in the type key of your app configuration. In your.platform.app.yaml file: If you’re not yet using Go for your project, now’s a great time to give Go a try.

Should Your Startup Use AWS Managed Services?

Let’s face it. Gaining a competitive advantage in the target market is expensive. Even if you have a good idea and its execution plan in mind, operations related to management, storage, networking, service provisioning, security, and application management will cost you a fortune. To say the least, a cutting-edge IT infrastructure, a reliable team, and a strategy for rapid product releases or expansion/scaling is a must for your product’s success.

A practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, Part 1: A beginner's guide to Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the traditional, on-premises domain service offered by Microsoft. It is the core component and a server role in Active Directory (AD), the specialized, proprietary directory service in Windows operating system environments. Consider an enterprise or a complex business set up with many connected network resources. In order to ensure the effective management of these resources, IT administrators use AD and its components, including AD DS.