July 2024

Hello, and welcome to our July newsletter!

Generative AI continues dominating news cycles, with companies announcing features and shifting strategies to avoid being labeled laggards. A recent survey (linked below) shows that developers may have lower enthusiasm levels than their managers when it comes to AI coding tools. Let us know how your teams use (or avoid) generative AI tools in your DevOps practices.

The Role of Leadership

in Managing Technical Debt

Tackling Technical Debt Redux: Part 4

Leaders play an important role in fixing technical debt by nurturing a culture that prevents unnecessary technical debt and sets aside time to address existing debt. The results are better products and less risk. Read more in our Technical Debt series Part 4.

DevOps Industry News

AI readiness report shows many enterprises bypass adoption best practices

Comparing Approaches: Center of excellence versus platform engineering

JFrog enhancing AI capabilities with $230 million acquisition of Qwak

Partner News and Announcements

Introducing Confluence mission control, an improved admin experience

Learn how to create great AI prompts with these tips from Atlassian

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.13 is now generally available, see what's new

Unlock the power of unstructured data with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

GitLab Critical Patch Release 17.1.1, 17.0.3, 16.11.5

Simplify value stream management with new scheduled reports tool from GitLab

Learn how to connect the JFrog platform to your GitHub environment in this tutorial

Get ready for swampUP 2024 with the official agenda

Branching Strategies Guide: Code branching strategy best practices

NASA's 10 rules for developing safety-critical code

Start building your EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance strategy now

Uncovering the invisible threat: Why your network may still be at risk

Learn how AWS CodeDeploy zonal deployment can increase operational resilience

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed self-hosted GitHub Action runners

DevSecOps Made Easy (Pt 1) - Choose the tool you prefer

DevSecOps Made Easy (Pt 2) - Stay clear of any lock-in

k0smotron 1.0 announces general availability with new enterprise capabilities

Easily manage Kubernetes data storage with Portworx Enterprise on Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

Register for the (virtual) public launch of Chef Courier

How to write an effective test strategy

Learn OpenShift Virtualization: 7 training resources to help you get started

Automating storage management with RHEL System Roles

Pytest: Getting started with automated testing for Python

Docker releases new beta feature to inspect GitHub Actions builds directly in Docker Desktop

See what's new in GitKraken v10.0.2 (Release Notes)

Top 15 ways to use Lucidspark in the classroom + templates

The Impact of Quality Gaps in the DevOps Pipeline

Visualizing SBOMS in embedded systems: Key components and their impact on cybersecurity

GDPR Compliance for Your Applications: A comprehensive guide

Cost Tracker now called Financial Manager

Upcoming Conferences

DevOpsDays

Nashville, TN

July 10-11 • In-person

Minneapolis, MN

August 6-7 • In-person

Birmingham, AL

August 19-21 • In-person

Halifax, NS

August 21-22 • In-person

Denver, CO

September 16-17 • In-person

Tampa Bay, FL

September 19 • In-person

Washington, DC

September 25-26 • In-person

AWS Summit

New York City, NY

July 10 • In-person

Toronto, ON

September 11 • In-person

Other Conferences

Denver Cybersecurity Conference

August 8 • Denver, CO

Chef Roadshow, San Francisco

August 20 • San Francisco, CA

Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit

August 20-22 • Las Vegas, NV

JFrog swampUP

September 9-11 • Austin, TX

STARWEST

September 22-27 • Anaheim, CA

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