January 2025

Happy New Year! We hope you've had as restful of a holiday break as we have at ReleaseTEAM. Below, we've gathered some product updates, productivity tips, and 2025 predictions from the past few weeks so you can ease into the first week of the year.

The Importance of Documentation in Managing Technical Debt

Tackling Technical Debt Redux: Part 10

Raise your hand if you love documenting code and business decisions! No takers? Now, raise your hand if you've used existing documentation to understand a dependency or solve an issue more quickly.

Documentation helps with writing new code or break/fix scenarios and helps teams identify, plan, and address technical debt more effectively. Learn about documentation's impact on technical debt in our latest blog post.

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DevOps Industry News

Navigating the future of AppSec as DevSecOps and GenAI accelerate

Can one developer productivity framework rule them all?

Which AI predictions came true in 2024—and the ones that didn't

Partner News and Announcements

Atlassian and AWS announce strategic collaboration agreement to drive enterprise cloud migration

Learn how Atlassian unified navigation experiences across their products, including design validation and flexible components

GitHub offers new CoPilot Free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month

OpenAI’s latest o1 model now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models

Streamline workflows and boost team productivity with these 5 GitLab Premium features

GitLab 17.7 Release shipped with 230+ improvements, including a new Planner user role

Learn how JFrog Cloud leverage a Kubernetes-only cloud for scalable performance

Breaking Silos: Unifying DevOps and MLOps into a cohesive Software Supply Chain – Part 1

Mermaid diagrams provide a quicker way to document systems and code. Watch this quick tutorial to learn how to create them in Gliffy

Learn how to draw dependency diagrams for systems or processes

Perforce Software implements new End of Life (EOL) Policy

npm packages from Rspack, Vant compromised December 19th, blocked by Sonatype

Why software composition analysis is essential for open source security

Is your DevOps stacking up to your needs? The complex world of AI, Hybrid, and Security in DevOps

Feature Management: The secret to simplified software delivery

Review Lucid's Best of 2024

See what's new in Mirantis Container Runtime 25: Enhanced observability, extensibility, and performance

What Is Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)?

5 DevSecOps trends to watch in 2025

Top 10 security architecture patterns for LLM applications

Want to write your first AI pilot project? Start with a problem, not an AI solution

From legacy to cloud-native: How Docker simplifies complexity and boosts developer productivity

Git + Microservices: Mastering multi-repo complexity with GitKraken’s new CLI tool

Google extends reach of AI coding tools to third-party DevOps platforms

IBM researchers are testing a new IBM-designed application and open-source platform to learn if more customized AI agents and applications can help business users extract more value from generative AI

8 steps to achieve non-disruptive cloud data migration

Catch up after the holidays with Revyz's Digest for Atlassian admins

Mastering HIPAA compliance: Your essential guide with steps, requirements, and more

RunSafe security extends platform reach to build more accurate SBOMs

Reflecting on 2024: Tempo’s most popular resources

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