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Startup CTO: How to Write a Job Listing for Software Engineers

A great job listing is critical to attracting the sort of talent you’re looking for. Including the right information and setting good expectations about the type of position you’re offering not only turns away unqualified applicants, but can also excite the type of person you’re seeking.

JFrog Pipelines: CI/CD for Native DevOps Automation

Learn how to optimize your complete end-to-end development and delivery process by using JFrog Pipelines. JFrog Pipelines is an automation service for performing the tasks of building, testing, and deploying software as part of a system of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). It can help you easily create smart, event-driven workflows across your tools and teams to help you release applications faster.

How to build a CICD pipeline for Serverless apps with TravisCI

Seed is a fully managed CI/CD pipeline for Serverless Framework applications. In one of our previous posts we looked at how to build a CI/CD pipeline for Serverless apps on AWS with CircleCI. Today, we’ll look at how to do the same with Travis CI. The purpose of these posts is to dive deep into real-world CI/CD setups, something which most of the tutorials out there skip. We’ll try to illustrate how to set up something similar to Seed but using Travis CI instead.

Tracking Hashicorp Consul with LogicMonitor

Companies around the world are going through digital transformation in some way or another. They are breaking monolithic applications into microservices for more natural development and deployment. Hashicorp Consul is one of the tools helping companies with this transformation. Consul helps with the shift of static infrastructure to dynamic infrastructure through service-based networking instead of host-based.

CI/CD for Microservices Best Practices on DevOps.com

You have finally split your big monolith into microservices. Now what? How do you validate a more complex application? And how do you make it scale? Instead of having one CI/CD pipeline, you have multiple. And as the number of microservices increases so does the number of pipelines. Managing pipelines for microservice applications can quickly get out of hand, especially when you try to reuse common pipeline parts between different applications.

Why you should be using Multi-Stage Docker Builds in 2019

Docker multi-stage builds were announced 2 years ago, but sadly not all developers are using them. Using multi-stage builds can result in a much more secure and smaller Docker image. In some cases, you can take a Docker image from 700MB to 20MB, which makes a big difference in the context of CI/CD. In this webinar, we will see how to use multi-stage Docker builds and the best practices around them.

Getting Started Using Cycle.io's API With NodeJS

The recent public release of Cycle’s API has already seen all sorts of innovative uses, from automating the deployments of medical applications, to creating customized monitoring services to track specific performance metrics. Everything you can do in the portal can also be accomplished via the API — it’s actually the exact same API we used to build the portal!

Step by Step guide on how to schedule the snapshot of mulitple VMware or Hyper-V Virtual Machines with auto deletion.

Every so often you need to schedule a snapshot on a virtual machine, whether that be a VMware virtual machine or a Hyper-V virtual machine, or even multiple virtual machines because someone or something is going to be changed and you need a quick way to roll them back to a running state, just in case things go belly up. It’s a very common task that administrators need to do.