In the world of AI coding, success hinges on code-native solutions that integrate and verify changes directly in the codebase. Many AI tools fail by relying on external dashboards, lacking the reproducibility and testability that code provides. To truly harness AI, solutions must automate and validate changes within the existing code ecosystem, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
VS Code Is Becoming an Agent Control Plane — and Most Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet
VS Code 1.110 ships agent plugins, hooks, and persistent memory. Microsoft is embedding control plane primitives into the IDE for AI agent governance.
CI/CD Pipelines for Large Teams: How to Keep Velocity Without Breaking the Build
Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential for modern software teams, as there is now a need for fast feature delivery and high-velocity improvements. However, achieving high speed may be difficult without compromising reliability, as the process involves coordinating among development teams working on different features of the same application simultaneously, product complexity […]
Best of 2024: Configuration-as-Code: Trends and Predictions for 2024
CaC allows for a version-controlled, reproducible and automated method of managing environments, leading to more consistent and reliable systems.
Configuration-as-Code: Trends and Predictions for 2024
CaC allows for a version-controlled, reproducible and automated method of managing environments, leading to more consistent and reliable systems.
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Steps for Migrating Code Between Version Control Tools
Code migration can be tricky if you’re not prepared. Follow these steps for a worry-free migration. Almost all source code contains some format of delicate information, whether it be configuration-related information such as database credentials or information on how the web application functions, such as a web template. If such information is disclosed, this information […]
3 Practical Steps to Employing DevOps
Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to begin. This is because to “do DevOps” its seems you have to suddenly start using a lot of new processes and tools at […]
Using Application Deltas in Deployments
Developers have been versioning their source files since the early days of Unix. Anyone else remember SCCS? Back in those days, storage was at a premium: Disks were small and very expensive and it was too inefficient to store a complete copy of each version of the source file. So version control tools would simply […]
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]