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Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams
When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. Asking team members to provide information or fill in fields in tools adds a burden and distorts reality. Setting up observability in the software can provide alternative insights in a less intrusive way. Observability in the software can be an asset to organizing teams.
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JFrog Artifactory Supports Binary Dependencies for Swift
JFrog has announced its Artifactory repository can be used as a binary package registry for Swift dependencies using the Swift Package Manager.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of Dynatrace for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced Dynatrace for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution from Dynatrace available in preview in the Azure Marketplace.
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GitHub Extends Its Supply Chain Security to Rust
GitHub has brought Rust support to its supply chain security feature. Aimed to ensure your project and its dependencies are free of vulnerabilities, GitHub supply chain security includes a database of advisories, a dependency graph analyzer, and Dependabot alerts and security updates.
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 Improves Security, Updates GitHub Actions, and More
The latest release of GitHub Enterprise Server brings many new features with a special emphasis on security and compliance, says GitHub, including Dependabot integration, improved security features, updates to GitHub Actions, and more.
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How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments
Squeaky - a company which helps businesses to understand how visitors are using their website or web app without invading their privacy - have outlined why they don’t use a staging environment. They believe that this helps them to ship faster, and lower the number of issues found in production.
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JReleaser 1.0: Talking to the Early Adopters of the Release Automation Tool
JReleaser was powering its releases, to make sure it understood the consumer experience first hand. In the meantime, other projects decided to use it as well. InfoQ talked to the developers behind them to understand their experience and how stable JReleaser really is.
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Veracode Report Shows Signs of Progress in Securing Software Supply Chain
Veracode's recently released State of Software Security report found a general decline in the number of known security vulnerabilities found in third-party libraries along with a trend towards smaller applications being scanned more regularly for issues. It also finds that the industry still has a long way to go.
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BBC New Serverless Platform Improves Scalability and Performance
One year into the transition to their new WebCore serverless platform, the BBC has started to reap the benefits of an architecture that removes the burden on engineers to solve performance and operational challenges and allows them to focus on the value they deliver to customers.
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CircleCI Report Finds Successful Software Teams are Larger and Test Extensively
CircleCI - a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform - has released the findings from their 2022 State of Software Delivery Report. The report reveals that the most successful software delivery teams are larger, use extensive testing, and prioritise being ready to deploy.
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JReleaser 1.0 Releases Itself
Exactly one year after its initial release, Jreleaser rolls out version 1.0. In the meantime, other projects started using the tool and its capabilities increased. To review how JReleaser evolved over the last year and may be envisioned for the next year, InfoQ spoke to Andres Almiray, author and main contributor of JReleaser.
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Managing Complex Dependencies with Distributed Architecture at eBay
The eBay engineering team recently outlined how they came up with a scalable release system. The release solution leverages distributed architecture to release more than 3,000 dependent libraries in about two hours. The team is using Jenkins to perform the release in combination with Groovy scripts.
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Apache NetBeans 13 Delivers Improved Developer Experience
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache NetBeans 13, their integrated development environment (IDE), claiming a simpler and smoother startup experience along with the partial upgrade of Maven, Gradle, and PHP. Written in Java and originally designed for the Java community, NetBeans is a cross-platform, polyglot IDE that includes language support for HTML5, PHP, and C/C++.
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Dockerfile Linter Hadolint Brings Fixes and Improvements, and Support for ARM64 Binaries
After a long wait, recent Hadolint releases have brought a number of fixes, improvements, and support for ARM64 binaries.
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HashiCorp Moves HCP Packer into GA with New Security Workflows
HashiCorp has moved HCP Packer into full general availability. HCP Packer is their cloud hosted offering of Packer, a machine-image building tool. The release adds a number of new features including improved security workflows, custom metadata, and integration of compliance checks with Terraform Cloud workflows.