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swampUP 2023 – Top 10 Reasons To Attend

swampUP 2023 – Top 10 Reasons To Attend

JFrog’s DevOps and DevSecOps user conference is a unique and inspiring in-person event. Here’s why you don’t want to miss it! Wednesday, September 13 | San Jose, California Get lessons learned on how industry-leading companies are approaching their DevOps and DevSecOps challenges - with fellow practitioners that have implemented large scale solutions. Including companies such…
What is Platform Engineering?

What is Platform Engineering?

If DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes collaboration between Development and Operations teams, then Platform Engineering operationalizes that approach by creating a centralized platform that has specific sets of tools and processes. It’s the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in a…
GitHub Tried to Change the Checksum for Release Archives. You Should Start Hosting Your Own.

GitHub Tried to Change the Checksum for Release Archives. You Should Start Hosting Your Own.

Yesterday, GitHub changed how the archives they provided are made. The result of this change surprised developers, triggering pipeline failures all over the world in most ecosystems. According to this GitHub post, this is a consequence of recent changes to Git itself, released almost six months ago and just deployed within GitHub now with unforeseen…
JFrog Providers Support the Terraform Community

JFrog Providers Support the Terraform Community

If you’re reading this blog you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with Hashicorp Terraform and the value it brings to managing the deployment and provisioning of infrastructure resources at scale. We’re big fans and users of it ourselves here at JFrog (see how in our recent webinar!).   Terraform is one of the most, if…
How to Integrate JFrog and Cycode

How to Integrate JFrog and Cycode

Four years ago the Clark School of engineering at the University of Maryland published a study quantifying that there is some kind of hacker attack happening every 39 seconds (on average). Which is unreal!! Source: University of Maryland A cyberattack can harm millions of people. Let’s take for example the Atlanta ransomware attack that used…
Proceed With Care: How to Use Approval Gates in Pipelines

Proceed With Care: How to Use Approval Gates in Pipelines

While DevOps automation aims to eliminate most human intervention in the CI/CD DevOps pipeline, you can’t always cut people completely out of the process. There are still times when you’ll want an expert, hands-on review to assure that everything is as it should be before allowing your pipeline to proceed further. That’s why JFrog Pipelines…
GitLab vs JFrog: Who Has the Right Stuff?

GitLab vs JFrog: Who Has the Right Stuff?

Like the historic space race, the competition to plant the flag of DevOps is blasting off which makes it an exciting moment for the community. According to market intelligence firm IDC, global business will invest $6.8 trillion in digital transformation by 2023. Yet research also suggests that 70 percent of them will fail to meet…
How to protect your secrets with Spectral and JFrog Pipelines

How to protect your secrets with Spectral and JFrog Pipelines

Thousands of secrets leak daily on public git repositories, including over two million corporate secrets in 2020 alone. This can happen to anyone! For example, in January 2021, an Amazon cloud engineer accidentally committed almost a gigabyte worth of sensitive data that included their own personal documents, as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to…
A Policy Change To Prevent Abuse on JFrog Cloud

A Policy Change To Prevent Abuse on JFrog Cloud

As of August 5, 2021, JFrog will require newly created free JFrog cloud subscription users to provide valid credit or debit card information in order to activate Pipelines CI/CD.  In the months since offering Pipelines CI/CD as part of a free JFrog cloud subscription, we have unfortunately experienced a rapid growth in abuse of the…