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The Quest For The Five Minute Deploy

The Quest For The Five Minute Deploy Speed is everything at incident.io. The faster we can test and ship code, the faster we can get new products and features out to customers. Over the last three years, as our codebase grew and our test suite expanded, we drifted away from our own goals: "We aim for less than 5 minutes between merging a PR and getting it into production." This is the story of how we got back on track.

Agentic Workflows That Actually Work (and Don't Take Six Months to Deploy)

There’s a hard truth in IT: everyone wants automation, but nobody wants to wait six months (or more) to get it off the ground. Traditional automation initiatives are often bogged down in backlog, scripting complexity, and integration chaos. That’s exactly what makes agentic workflows different. Agentic workflows don’t just automate tasks; they act. They understand intent, operate autonomously, and improve over time.

Zero downtime deployments to Render using CircleCI

Downtime during deployments can affect the performance of your work. Data can be lost, and trust in your application can be destroyed. Luckily, zero downtime deployments do not need to be complex or involve a big infrastructure. This tutorial will teach you to establish a stable CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI and Render to automatically test and deploy a basic React application.

Less Overhead, More Impact: The Cycle Approach

Every company is now a software company. While the industry gets caught up in buzzwords and complexity, the core question remains: How can my organization reduce costs without creating long-term problems, and without giving up security or speed? The Cycle platform was built to answer this. It offers a lower total cost of ownership, simplifies operations at scale through automation and standards, and is secure by default without slowing down development.

Free for the Community, Built by JFrog: Introducing the DSSE Attestation Online Decoder

Attestations, or as we like to call them, evidence, are a critical piece to proving software supply chain integrity and security. However, without the right tools and processes, reviewing and verifying attestations can be time-consuming. At JFrog, we’re deeply committed to empowering developers, DevOps, and Security teams to make these complex workstreams as simple as possible.

Platform Team Toolkit demo

Platform teams face an impossible choice: rigid standardization that slows developers down, or operational chaos that creates security gaps. CircleCI's new Platform Team Toolkit eliminates this tradeoff by delivering self-service developer experiences with built-in governance. What You'll See in This Demo: Key Benefits: Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders who need to scale software delivery without sacrificing speed or safety.

Stop Committing Too Soon With This Git Hack!

Need just one commit from another branch — but don’t want to commit it yet? In this episode of Wait… Git Can Do That?, we show you how to use git cherry-pick -n to stage changes without committing. Perfect for bundling, editing, or staging carefully Keeps history clean Bonus: In GitKraken Desktop, cherry-pick visually and decide when to commit More control. Less commit anxiety. Subscribe for more Git tricks and GitKraken power moves.

Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

At 3:47 AM, your NGINX logs show a 500 error. Around the same time, your APM flags a spike in API latency. But what's the root cause, and why is it so hard to correlate logs, traces, and metrics? When API response times cross 3 seconds, identifying whether the slowdown is at the NGINX layer, the application, or the database shouldn't require guesswork. That's where OpenTelemetry instrumentation for NGINX becomes essential.