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AWS CodePipeline Embraces Monorepos, GitFlow and Branches
AWS has announced new features in CodePipeline, their managed continuous delivery service facilitating automated release pipelines for application and infrastructure updates. These additions aim to support teams employing various delivery strategies, providing customers with more flexibility in their pipeline designs.
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How Airbnb Migrated from Buck to Bazel with Minimal Interference to Developers
Following in the line of other organizations migrating their build pipelines to Bazel, Airbnb provided a detailed walk-through of the process that led them to leave Buck behind and improve both build times as well as project generation and loading times.
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Airbnb’s CI/CD Framework Employs Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite for Efficient Software Delivery
Airbnb recently discussed a DevOps framework tailored to their CRM platform, integrating Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite. This framework facilitates the involvement of all stakeholders, from developers to low-code users, in the development and deployment process. Using the DevOps framework, Airbnb has reduced deployment time from 90 to 15 minutes.
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Bazel 7 Released with New Dependency Management System and More
Recently announced at BazelCon 23, Bazel 7 materializes several new features that have been in development for multiple years, including the new modular external dependency management system Bzlmod, a new optimizing "Build without the Bytes" mode, improved multi-target build performance thanks to Project Skymeld, and more.
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Key Lessons for Mobile Release Management from DoorDash
The release process for DoorDash mobile apps is based on clear-cut responsibilities shared across teams, effective communication, testing, and strict rules about handling regressions and hotfixes, explains DoorDash engineer Manolo Sañudo. While not all organizations work at DoorDash scale, many aspects of their approach can prove useful to smaller organizations, too.
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JetBrains Launches IntelliJ-Based Writing Tool WriterSide
With WriterSide, JetBrains aims to allow developers and writers to create technical documentation using a write, test, build workflow. The new tool is based on IntelliJ-platform IDEs and has been used to create most of JetBrains products' documentation for the last few years.
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Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach.
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How Spotify Transitioned to Bazel to Build their iOS App
After three years experimenting with Bazel, in 2020 Spotify decided to adopt it as their official build system for the Spotify iOS app. Thanks to this, they could reduce build times to a fourth, explains Spotify engineer Patrick Balestra.
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Eating One's Own Dogfood: GitHub Using Actions and Runners for GitHub.com
To improve how they ship software in a scalable and effective way, GitHub has adopted GitHub Actions for a part of their continuous integration system. In particular, they leveraged the new Actions larger runners to get to run 15,000 CI jobs across 150,000 cores. In the process they also extended larger runners capabilities for all their users.
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Treat Your CI System as a Product for Faster and Better Feedback
Improving the feedback time of a continuous integration (CI) system and optimizing the test methods and classes resulted in more effective feedback for development teams. CI systems are an important part of the development process and should be treated as such.
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Terraform Adds Support for Azure Linux, Introduces New CI/CD Tool
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Within Terraform Cloud, there is a new CI/CD pipeline integration tool. Terraform has added support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service. The HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 5.0 was released with improved support for default tags.
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ETTrace is an Open-Source Profiler for iOS Aiming to Simplify Performance Optimization
Recently open-sourced by Emerge Tools, maker of several analysis tools for iOS apps, ETTrace aims to simplify iOS performance profiling by providing intuitive visualizations and straightforward operation.
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How Airbnb Improved its CI Pipeline for iOS Using AWS and Terraform
AirBnb has historically managed its own fleet of Macs to run its iOS continuous integration pipeline. Thanks to AWS providing support for Macs, AirBnb engineers could migrate their iOS CI infrastructure to AWS to increase flexibility, consistency, and efficiency.
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Docker 4.18 Extends Scout, Adds Container File Explorer, Docker Init, and More
Docker Desktop's latest 4.18 release, brings a wealth of new features, including vulnerability quickview, recommendations, and image diffing for Docker Scout, stable Container File Explorer, an init command to quickly add Docker to a project, and experimental Compose File Watch to monitor changes inside a project.
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Open Source Git Project Releases Version 2.40
Recently, the open-source Git project released its latest version 2.40, bringing some new features and bug fixes. Highlights of this release include updates to git jump tool, enhancements to cat-file tool, and faster response on Windows.