December 2024

Happy Holidays from all of us at ReleaseTEAM! Whether you're still recovering from either the Turkey Trot or eating too much turkey, we've got a lineup of team productivity, AI/ML, and security news for you to read leisurely from your office chair below. New Year and 2025 technical strategy planning will be here soon.

If there's anything we can do to help make 2025 successful for you, drop us a note here.

Tips for Managing Technical Debt in Agile Environments

Tackling Technical Debt Redux: Part 9

Agile development can both create and resolve technical debt. The 9th post in our Technical Debt series explores strategies for managing technical debt, from "fix it as you go" to dedicated sprints. It emphasizes the importance of balancing new features with resolving legacy issues to ensure sustainable progress.

DevOps Industry News

Why shift-left security is more important than ever

DevOps Trends to watch for in 2025

Partner News and Announcements

Learn how to capture, organize, and share knowledge effectively across your organization

Jira's easier for non-engineering teams to adopt with recent terminology changes that reflect how teams work

Apply now to GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund. Improved open source security benefits the open source community and the companies that depend on these projects

AI coding tools promise to save time. How are developers spending that time?

New GitLab feature enhances project imports, allowing post-import user contribution mapping and greater control. It's available on gitlab.com by default and in self-managed instances using feature flags

GitLab 17.6 release includes adherence checks for SAST and DAST security scanners, vulnerability report grouping, and the beta self-hosted Duo Chat. See all the new features

JFrog introduces Usage Explorer, which monitors and analyzes usage and data transfers for better resource allocation

Catch up on the server-side vulnerabilities in ML-related open source projects the JFrog team has discovered

9 Tips for working with and refactoring legacy code

How to avoid buffer overrun

Access the Gartner "Innovation Insight for SBOMs" research report, courtesy of Sonatype

Best practices for software supply chain security

Dissecting the Performance Gains in Amazon Q Developer agent for code transformation

Proactively validate your AWS CloudFormation templates with AWS Lambda

Simplify Jenkins management and enhance scalability with CloudBees CI, an enterprise extension

Learn how to improve CI pipeline troubleshooting with CloudBees Pipeline Explorer

New ways to boost agility this fall 2024

How visual collaboration supports Agile teams

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4 brings composability to enterprise Kubernetes

Mirantis Launches Support Offerings for Harbor Registry and KubeVirt

Network observability is important for securing hybrid cloud environments

Learn how to create data-based user personas

Red Hat believes the future of AI is open source

InstructLab tutorial: Installing and fine-tuning your first AI model (part 1)

CircleCI is a challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms Report

Docker increases container security

GitLens 16 adds new Home view, smart workflows, and enhanced Git navigation

IBM expands its AI Accelerator offerings

Explore how the Defense and Aerospace sector is leveraging Digital Thread

What is Jira issue hierarchy? Learn how configure issue hierarchy for improved collaboration and project management

Is there a difference between backups and archives? Yes! Here's what you need to know for your data management strategy

CISA is urging software manufacturers to publish a memory safety roadmap by January 1, 2026. Are you ready?

Upcoming Conferences

Other Conferences

DevOps Vision

December 2-4 • Clearwater, FL

AWS re:Invent

December 2-6 • Las Vegas, NV

Worldwide Software Architecture Summit Winter '24

December 3-5 • Virtual

Half Moon Bay / Summit CISO

December 4 • San Francisco, CA

Conf42 DevSecOps

December 5 • Virtual

GitKon

December 10-11 • Virtual

DoD Weapon Systems

Software Summit

December 10-13 • SLC, UT

CDCA Eastern Defense Summit 2024

December 11-12 • Charleston, SC

CES

January 7-10 • Las Vegas, NV

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