Implementing continuous integration at scale is essential to scaling your overall DevOps practice. The tools and technology you use shouldn’t hinder your ability to scale these practices alongside your business. We’ve recently introduced capabilities that allow you to scale your DevOps practices using modern CI/CD and today we’re excited to announce 500 and 1,000 agent tiers in Bamboo. Now you can increase build agent pools to match your team’s size.

Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll, from ING Netherlands, talked at the Velocity conference in London about how poor availability from their internet banking systems prompted the bank to implement an SRE culture. A centralized SRE team was set up in the Netherlands to provide tooling, consulting and education on reliability to product teams (known as BizDevOps squads internally).

This is the first official release of Up Pro, which includes a number of improvements over the open-source version for production applications. If you’re unfamiliar with Up, it’s a tool which helps you manage and deploy serverless apis, apps and websites in seconds to your own AWS infrastructure. In short: it’s the easiest way to deploy Node.js, Golang, Python among others to AWS, and can cost as little as $1/mo to run or in some cases free.

Fifteen years ago nobody complained about shipping features too often. Today some teams have a different problem. New features are rolling out from the software teams faster than they and the rest of their company can keep up.

Many Apex Up users have been asking about integration with continuous integration platforms, this post walks through staging and deploying Up to production using Semaphore CI.