Economically speaking, scale-ups deliver far greater value than their size suggests. Whilst they make up just 1% of SME firms, the ‘sub-sector’ accounts for 8% of SME employment and 22% of SME turnover. Nearly 1 million people are employed in scale-up companies and these businesses have a combined turnover of almost £500 billion. Scotland has just over 2,100 scale-ups, with a pipeline of another 1,000. The current turnover of these organisations totals just over £41bn.

If you’ve ever spent hours trying to figure out what went wrong in your code, you know how frustrating it can be without a clear trail to follow. Logs give you that trail, showing the steps your system took before something broke. Think of stack traces, they’re helpful for showing you where an error occurred. But they don’t always explain how it occurred. That’s where logs come into place.

Given the sophisticated nature of modern IT, today’s operations teams require more than simple step-by-step instructions—they need intelligent automation that boosts efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility throughout the organization. Runbook automation transforms traditional, manual processes into automated workflows, empowering operators to execute complex, multi-step tasks quickly and reliably.

In June 2024, Amazon hit an astounding $2 trillion valuation, joining the elite ranks of companies like Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. This growth was largely driven by the success of its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which holds one-third of the global cloud market share. That equals the combined market share of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud! But who are AWS’s biggest contributors to this success?

We’re excited to announce the first set of official Codefresh steps for Octopus Deploy. This provides another way to streamline your processes by integrating your Codefresh builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy. In this post, we walk you through the process of creating a release and deploying it to an Octopus environment through Codefresh Pipelines.

Hey developers! We’re excited to announce GitLens 16, our most significant update yet to enhance how developers work with Git in VS Code. Over 35 million developers around the world rely on GitLens for its seamless integration with VS Code, providing powerful Git visualizations like inline blame annotations, the Commit Graph, and Launchpad. GitLens continues to improve essential Git workflows, saving developers time and enhancing their coding experience within VS Code.

Every operating system has its quirks, and Linux security is no different. Whether you’re on Team Penguin or running mostly Windows boxes (or a bit of both), you’ll need to take different steps to manage security on different OSes. Like any OS, Linux security comes with its own peculiarities, pitfalls, and best practices.

When it comes to different concepts around data within software development, the concept of ephemeral data is gaining traction. But what exactly is ephemeral data, and why should you care? Ephemeral data is temporary information that exists only for a short period or for a specific purpose. Think of it like a disappearing message or a fleeting snapshot of a moment in time. It offers numerous benefits, including increased privacy, improved security, and greater system efficiency.

CI/CD workflows are essential for modern software development, enabling scalability, seamless integration, and ease of workflow management. However, migrating these workflows between tools—such as from Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines—can feel daunting due to differences in syntax, custom configurations, and repository-specific setups. To address these challenges, we’re thrilled to announce the Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines Migration Tool.

At incident.io, we run on a monolith. This brings a whole load of benefits that we don’t want to give up any time soon. We don’t have to worry about the speed of internal network requests, complex deployments, or optimizing work that touches multiple services. This blog post isn’t about the relative benefits of monoliths though (but we’ve written more about that here if you are interested)! Ownership in monoliths is tricky.