Automating the deployment of a new web application and the release of feature updates goes a long way towards improving the productivity and efficiency of your development team. Another benefit of automation is that it minimizes or even eliminates repeated manual deployments. Manual deployments introduce the risk of human error during this critical part of the development process.
It is no secret that software development is becoming an increasingly complex process. The individual elements of software like apps, libraries, and services are interconnected and dependent on many other elements. Development teams deal with a whole ecosystem of services that they develop, maintain, or depend on, which in turn are dependent on other software ecosystems, maintained by separate teams. Maintaining this ecosystem is as complex as you might imagine.
Gatsby is a static website and application generator that makes building powerful React-based frontend applications easy and effective. With over fifty thousand stars on GitHub (51.5k as at the time of this writing), Gatsby stands as one of the most widely used React frameworks. Gatsby is so popular that most hosting platforms offer custom support for the framework. Netlify is one of those platforms.
Software is one of the most complex tools invented for practical use. One misplaced character can break an entire application. So, careful testing is an essential requirement before publishing any code. In this article, you will learn about two fundamental types of software testing, unit testing and integration testing, and how your team can implement them in your CI/CD pipelines to validate your code quickly and deliver new features to your users with confidence.
A key goal for any DevOps team is to shorten the software development cycle and provide continuous delivery of high-quality software. Instead of continuing to the next logical goal, continuous deployment, most companies stop here. Developed code reaches the testing phase automatically, then, successful testing triggers a manual acceptance step. Only then is the application deployed into production.
