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Top 6 advantages of software as a service

Of the many challenges faced by modern enterprises, managing a remote workforce is near the top of the list. Keeping distributed teams organized, engaged, and happy is crucial in today’s highly competitive and globalized business environment. Providing reliable, secure, and cost-effective software tooling is just one piece of this increasingly complex puzzle.

Deploying your Gradle Build Cache Node using GCP

This tutorial is a follow-up to TurboCharging your Android Gradle builds using build cache . The key focus of this post is the remote build cache, a build speed acceleration technology that can be implemented for both local and CI builds. This is a technology worth knowing about because: Gradle provides a build cache node available as a Docker image. You can host this image in a number of ways.

The Confident Commit ep. 9 | Amplifying your organizational expertise with Marko Gargenta

Rob sits down with Marko Gargenta to discuss helping developers build real knowledge about delivering software effectively. Marko shares how he came to realize that learning, training, and empowering new knowledge is vital for aspiring technical professionals. For many organizations, investment in knowledge building through education and training has slashed time waste, inspired new development, and supported overall growth.

Top 6 benefits of virtualization

Virtualization has been with us since the 1960s. In computer science terms, it is about as old as the hills. Yet this old-school idea has never been more relevant. We all know hardware is expensive. Despite the cost, many businesses squander their precious processing power. All too often, a “one server, one purpose” mindset leads IT departments to waste server capacity. With virtualization, we leave this myopic view of server management in the dust.

Functional browser testing with Puppeteer

Most interactions with a web application occur at the browser. Users search items, fill forms, create shopping carts, log into their profiles, and perform many other tasks. Unit tests are great, but nothing beats testing an application by interacting with the user-facing frontend. In this tutorial, you will learn and demonstrate how to write tests for the browser using Puppeteer . You will then take this a step further by automating the testing process in a continuous integration flow.

Create a continuous deployment pipeline for Django applications

Django is the most popular web development framework for the Python programming language. Its design facilitates rapid development without compromising on the standards of professionally built applications. It is free, open source, uses the Model-View-Template architectural pattern, and encapsulates a lot of boilerplates to enable developers churn out web apps quickly.

CircleCI Server 3.1 Demo | Server Metrics, Backup & Restore plus Runners

Learn how to use server metrics, backup and restore, and CircleCI runners on server 3.1. The latest version of server is designed to meet the strictest security, compliance, and regulatory restraints. This self-hosted solution offers the ability to scale under load and run multiple services at once, all within a team's Kubernetes cluster and network with the full CircleCI cloud experience.