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Faster Is Not Better: On Experimentation Culture and What It Costs

Faster experimentation sounds like an obvious advantage. But experimentation culture is not a universal paradigm. It is a product of a very specific context. And the people who bear the heaviest cost of poor product development never appear in any experiment.

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Git Clarity: Building Meaningful Commits and Linear History

Feeling overwhelmed by Git’s complexity? Discover a streamlined workflow that centers on creating single, comprehensible commits. Learn how this approach leads to clearer code reviews, fewer merge conflicts, and a beautiful linear commit history that tells the story of your code. This isn’t just about Git commands—it’s about aligning your tools with how your brain works.

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Implementing GitOps without Kubernetes

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Compliance in hybrid operating environments

Compliance is a key element of corporate governance. It helps ensure that developed software upholds the necessary legal conformity and quality. It is also an unavoidable criterion for modernizing a system landscape, which often goes hand in hand with migration to the cloud.

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Testing your GitLab CI/CD pipeline

If you develop a pipeline as a service for other development teams you should treat it as a product and establish product development processes, a versioning strategy, etc. around it. Besides that, as potentially many teams will use and rely on your pipeline you want to make sure that new features don’t break existing functionality. This ensures that your customer base remains happy and able to deliver business value. Therefore you need some sort of testing and we will demonstrate a way to (integration-) test your GitLab CI/CD pipeline.

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Is Platform Engineering the new DevOps?

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Build an internal development platform

We are currently breaking down our software into smaller pieces, such as SCS or microservices, and deploying them on cloud platforms to take advantage of their elasticity and flexibility. However, as our technology stack grows more complex, it has become increasingly challenging for our development teams to focus on business goals while also meeting operational requirements. In order to streamline the development process and provide easy self-service options, we are exploring the implementation of an internal development platform. To address these challenges, we have identified several open-source projects that can be integrated into our platform to enhance the development experience. Although this list is not exhaustive, it provides a solid foundation for creating a more effective platform. Our aim is to help development teams stay focused on business goals by minimising distractions and addressing operational needs.

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How to use and build your own distroless images

Security and efficiency are key goals in production systems. This begins when we build our application images and look for a suitable base image. So what are good base images and how do distroless images fit into this picture?

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Infrastructure Self-Service with Crossplane

Case Study

DEVK: Standardizing Security and Compliance Across a Complex Software Landscape