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In this article by Nils Balkow Tychsen, Lead Q&A Engineer at Humanitec, you will learn some use cases for sandboxed environments such as parallel feature development, parallel testing of feature flags, and parallel testing of microservice versions in different combinations.

A good developer experience is crucial to keep developer teams productive, happy, and focussed on work important to your business aims. In this first roundtable, we get the opinions and experiences from two experts in the field: Nigel Simpson, Director, Enterprise Tech Strategy at a Fortune 100 company, and Erik Muttersbach, CTO at forto (formerly FreightHub), a Berlin logistics startup.

Episode 5 - Balduran Outpost Adventure: How to Raise a Dragon by Adam Hancock was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more of Adam Hancock’s work on DMs Guild at https://bit.ly/2W4XcW9 Character art made with Reroll.co Outpost map by Anne Gregerson. Thank you to Adam Hancock for letting us use his work, our players Chris, Luke, Patrick and Tuz, and our DM Peter!

In this article, we look at ephemeral testing environments, small, discrete, and short-lived testing environments that reflect only the changes you are interested in testing.

Take a look at using Heroku to host the microservices behind a small bot project the author maintains.

Despite sounding similar, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment are subtly different from each other. While they have overlap, they are applicable and useful at different stages of the development process. In this post, we look at what the different terms mean, what benefits they bring to you and your team, and what you need to get started implementing the practice.

Continuous delivery helps software development teams get their code changes from development to testing, and into the hands of users more quickly. In this post, Chris Ward looks at the benefits and best practices for implementing this practice into your teams.

Software developers submit a pull request (often abbreviated to PR) in their git system like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket to signal to their teammates or manager that a branch or fork they have been working on is ready for review.

As open-source projects grow in use and popularity, many of their maintainers face a challenge to understand how and how many people use their tools.

Another remote event for 2020, but GitHub Satellite still managed to pack some impressive feature announcements, and a good dose of humor in these trying times.

OpenStack has a new release and it’s big. Let’s take a look at what Ussuri, the 21st release, has to offer.

Chris speaks with Raj Dutt, CEO, and co-founder of Grafana Labs, the company behind the Grafana open source project to find out more about the project and their plans.

Orchestrating an application in Kubernetes can be even in a simple setup pretty complex. In this post, you learn how to architect a Kubernetes-native application and create a first deployment using kubectl.

Breaking applications into smaller coupled components like microservices, and running each of those components in containers often go hand in hand. These modern application architecture principles have allowed many businesses and software projects to make regular and rapid changes to running software and scale them to suit changes in demand and approach. In this article, we breakdown what a container is, and the direct benefits they bring to your developer teams and business.

We introduced improvements to pipelines to help scale applications and their repo structures more effectively. Here’s how they work.

Inspired by the magnificent Owlbear, winners of the @Jamesintrocaso Twitter tournament, we’re playing The Phantasmal Owlbear’s Den written by Tomas Gimenez Riojas. This along with other encounters and resources for your table can be found at Tribality.com. Special thanks to our players; Fotis, Chris, Patrick, and Tuz, and our DM Peter. Art and maps by Sean Evans, Gogots, and the video game Dragon’s Crown.

Canonical announced the latest Ubuntu release, and as an LTS, it’s not packed with new features, but brings many usability, stability, and performance improvements to suit individuals and enterprises alike.

Chris speaks with Quentin Rhoads-Herrera of CRITICALSTART to discuss cybersecurity in a time of a pandemic.

Swift Playgrounds from Apple is a slick integrated coding education tool — how far does go it to teach one of the hottest languages of the past 5 years?

Many distributed ledgers claim to be better for performance and security. Chris Ward speaks with Hashgraph creator, Dr Leemon Baird, to see if the project holds up.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conducted another survey late last year and the results are now out. Here’s what’s popular in cloud native development.

Introduced in GitLab 12.7, Code Review Analytics can help you dig deeper into slow-moving merge requests.

New in GitLab 12.8, this dashboard helps to simplify the complex process of compliance tracking, right inside GitLab.

See what API Evangelist, Kin Lane of Postman, has to say about the future of APIs as we continue into 2020.

In the wake of coronavirus — What will this mean for the future of tech conferences when the world goes back to normal?

See what API Evangelist, Kin Lane of Postman, has to say about the future of APIs as we continue into 2020.

In the wake of coronavirus — What will this mean for the future of tech conferences when the world goes back to normal?