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We’re constantly told to “Shift Left” and that Secure DevOps is the only way to have confidence in your cloud native applications. But speaking to end-users and industry colleagues, it’s clear that there are some major challenges in adopting Secure DevOps. If we read our history books, we know that DevOps wasn’t successfully adopted by buying tools, and a true cultural movement towards DevOps wasn’t established by having a small dedicated team of DevOps specialists.

Grafana presents some of the most versatile tools for visualizing and understanding the real-time performance and reliability of systems, regardless of where your data lives. But one question our customers frequently ask is, “Can I use Grafana to understand the health and performance of my business?” More often than not, our answer is yes.

Confidently testing in production is crucial for engineers to deliver software quickly. In this blog, we’ll discuss what our team at CircleCI has learned while changing our critical systems.

Software engineering teams have always looked for ways to increase code creation efficiency, reduce code vulnerabilities, and improve security processes. Many are now shifting security left, establishing security controls and testing — specifically integration testing — at an earlier phase in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Have you established a business automation workflow? If you’re committed to running an efficient operation that fires on all cylinders, you should be embracing automation at every level of your workflow. Automation is no longer the future - it’s here now. Failing to make use of workflow automation tools will leave your business running at a disadvantage. The inefficiencies of not utilizing a business automation workflow are costing organizations 20-30% of their annual revenue.