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. Itโ€™s the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in a โ€ฆ

Prevent Inadvertent Software Supply Chain Exposures When Allowing Public Access to Private Registries

At JFrog, weโ€™re serious about software supply chain security. As a CVE Numbering Authority, our JFrog Security Research team regularly discovers and discloses new malicious packages and vulnerabilities posing a threat to development organizations. We know that in order to deliver trusted software on demand, you must have a secure software supply chain โ€” making โ€ฆ

JFrogโ€™s Software Artifact State of the Union is Here! See Whatโ€™s Actually Being Used in Software Technology Today

As software development becomes more complex, itโ€™s important for IT and software leaders to stay up-to-date on the latest trends. Tools like Stack Overflowโ€™s Developer Survey and the Tiobe Index can be helpful, but they rely on indirect data and donโ€™t provide a full picture of whatโ€™s actually being used in production. JFrogโ€™s Software Artifact โ€ฆ

Enterprise Package Management for Everyone

Suppose you asked developers in the mid-2000s how they managed and compiled their binaries. Youโ€™d probably hear some anxiety-inducing answers (e.g., storing packages in git repositories or insecure file stores). Thankfully, organizations currently have various options for managing their first or third-party packages, dependencies, and containers. Different tools offer different levels of package support and โ€ฆ

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 โ€ฆ

Update Repositories for PHP Composer v2 in JFrog Artifactory

If youโ€™re among the nearly one in four professional developers using PHP (according to StackOverflowโ€™s 2021 survey), then the maintainers of Composer would really like you to migrate from v1 of the PHP package manager to v2.  On October 24 2020, Composer 2.0.0 was released with some major improvements.Since almost eight out of every ten โ€ฆ

Steer OCI to Kubernetes with Artifactory and Helm 3

With the latest release of JFrog Artifactory, your Kubernetes world just got a lot bigger. Artifactoryโ€™s Docker registries are now compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Repository support for images compatible with OCI and support for the Helm 3 client mean you can run K8s with a high degree of versatility. Once youโ€™re no โ€ฆ

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Overcoming Continuous Delivery Challenges with P2P Distribution

UPDATE: JFrogโ€™s Private Distribution Network and P2P capabilities capabilities are constantly being enhanced, and are currently undergoing major improvements. PDN is, as a result, not available for public sale at this time. If youโ€™re interested in exploring PDN capabilities in your own company, please contact your sales representative or email service AT jfrog.com. DevOps adoption is โ€ฆ

Track JFrog Platform Performance with Datadog Analytics

Faithful operation of your JFrog Platform can be best assured by tracking usage data of Artifactory and Xray. With insights gained through real-time observability and log analytics, you can boost the efficiency of your DevOps pipeline and keep your software releases running joyfully. Datadog is a SaaS-based data analytics platform that is a popularly used โ€ฆ