February 2025

Welcome to the February edition of your DevOps Digest! As we move into the season of love, we're all about showing some TLC to your pipelines, processes, and productivity. Let's dive in and keep the DevOps momentum going strong!

Refactoring Techniques to Reduce Technical Debt

Tackling Technical Debt Redux: Part 11

This final post in our Managing Technical Debt series covers refactoring techniques to reduce debt and boost software performance. Learn to streamline code, improve maintainability, and prevent future issues with best practices for sustainable development.

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DevOps Industry News

121 organizations show progress in DevSecOps, but security training for developers remains insufficient

Why DevOps and data are C-suite issues that need addressing

DevOps teams must prove they are mission-critical to the success of their organization to earn their budget. Apply these lessons learned from SecOps

Partner News and Announcements

Combine Confluence and Jira for improved progress and performance reporting with this tutorial

Use these best practices to conduct effective sprint retros

The GitHub Skyline CLI extension allows you to generate and print a 3D graph of your GitHub contributions. Learn how the team built Skyline using GitHub

Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

GitLab 17.8 shipped with over 60 improvements including enhanced security for container repositories, list deployments related to a release, and ML model experiments tracking

Learn how to manage users using groups, roles, and permissions in GitLab

JFrog Cloud Native innovation – availability, security performance and efficiency at scale

Now Available: Evidence Collection with JFrog

How does ul 4600 keep autonomous trucking systems safe?

Experts weigh in on how to protect the software supply chain. Read the summary and access the webinar recording here

Sonatype shares their 2025 predictions for regulatory landscapes

Catch up on all of the best DevOps sessions from re:Invent with this curated list of on-demand recordings

Effortlessly execute AWS CLI commands using natural language with Amazon Q Developer

Revolutionizing DevOps with Jenkins

5 mistakes organizations make when applying Agile practices (how to avoid them)

Reflecting on retrospectives: A Q&A with expert and author David Horowitz

Streamlined OpenStack Management on Kubernetes: Introducing Rockoon

Combine automatic data collection across systems with real time monitoring when you integrate Chef Automate with Splunk software

Progress Chef 360 SaaS, a cloud-native platform that enables DevOps and IT teams to orchestrate workflows, is now available in beta

Find out what Red Hat has been working on in the AI space with this collection of 11 AI videos

Simplifying and optimizing Red Hat OpenShift on OpenStack with hosted control planes

Logging hours in Jira feels pointless unless used to improve planning. See how 7pace Timetracker turns logged hours into valuable insights

CircleCI Server v4.6.4 fixes four known bugs and allows customers to configure the provider manager’s connection pool size

How Docker streamlines the onboarding process and sets up developers for success

GitLens 16.2 adds support for self-hosted GitHub Enterprise and GitLab self-managed integrations. See all of the new updates

Case Study: Danske Bank drives competitive differentiation in banking using IBM Engineering Workflow Management software

Choosing the Right Enterprise Cloud Data Migration Strategy: Cold, Live, or OpsHub Live++

Streamline compliance efforts and improve audit outcomes for frameworks such as SOC 2, NIS2, and DORA with Jira and Confluence

Securing space as the next frontier of critical infrastructure

What’s New in SD Elements 2024.4

Developer Velocity: What It is, How to Measure & Improve It

Using AI to solve your planning problems: Tempo’s Rovo-powered agents

Top Tips to Build A Secure And Privacy-First Cloud Infrastructure

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