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A Quick Guide to Developing Steps for Relay

Relay has a substantial library of external services and tools — as of March 2021 there are 60 integrations in our Github organization. Each integration repo can contain multiple triggers, containers that receive webhook payloads from other services, and steps, which Relay executes to get stuff done in your workflow.

Continuous integration that you can trust: announcing SOC 2 certification

At CircleCI, we care about security - in 2018, we became the first CI/CD tool to meet the rigorous security and privacy standards required by government agencies to get FedRAMP authorized. Now, CircleCI is SOC 2 certified, adding another industry-recognized security accreditation.

IAM Policies: Good, Bad & Ugly

In my last post we looked at the structure of AWS IAM policies and looked at an example of a policy that was too broad. Let's look at a few more examples to explore how broad permissions can lead to security concerns. By far the most common form of broad permissions occurs when policies are scoped to a service but not to specific actions.

What is an ARP Table?

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is the protocol that bridges Layer 2 and Layer 3 of the OSI model, which in the typical TCP/IP stack is effectively gluing together the Ethernet and Internet Protocol layers. This critical function allows for the discovery of a devices’ MAC (media access control) address based on its known IP address. By extension, an ARP table is simply the method for storing the information discovered through ARP.

What is YAML? A Beginner's Guide

YAML is a digestible data serialization language that is often utilized to create configuration files and works in concurrence with any programming language. YAML is a data serialization language designed for human interaction. It’s a strict superset of JSON, another data serialization language. But because it’s a strict superset, it can do everything that JSON can and more.

Can devs and designers get along? - Dev Matters S1E02

In this episode of Dev Matters, Don and his guest Ben Sanders discuss whether software developers and designers can really get along. Ben shares stories, tips, and strategies pulled from his experience of over 15 years in the software industry. This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience on Twitch.

IDC: Become a Digital Innovation Factory with These 4 Pillars of Modern DevOps

It’s do or die. In today’s brutally competitive digital economy, it is imperative for organizations to transform themselves into software-driven businesses — becoming “digital innovation factories” that can quickly and efficiently create and distribute new digital services. This enables them to be resilient, nimble, and innovative, creating business value and responding to market shifts and to customer needs. What does it take to keep your digital innovation factory humming?