Jacob Schmitt

DORA metrics: How to measure DevOps performance

Jun 25, 202410 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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What is Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)?

Jun 9, 202410 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Pytest: Getting started with automated testing for Python

Jun 3, 20249 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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What is a DevOps engineer? A look inside the role

May 29, 20249 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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From MLOps to LLMOps: The evolution of automation for AI-powered applications

Mar 25, 20248 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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The testing pyramid: Strategic software testing for Agile teams

Jan 26, 20249 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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What is microservices architecture?

Jan 22, 202410 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Test-driven development (TDD) explained

Jan 17, 20247 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Prompt engineering: A guide to improving LLM performance

Jan 12, 202410 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Deploy and re-evaluate LLM-powered apps with LangSmith and CircleCI

Nov 14, 202310 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Build and evaluate LLM-powered apps with LangChain and CircleCI

Nov 7, 202314 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Measuring generative AI risks and rewards

Risks and rewards of generative AI for software development

Nov 1, 20238 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

How to SSH into Docker containers

Sep 28, 20238 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Sharing data across hybrid cloud and local CI/CD environments

Sep 21, 20236 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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GitLab vs. GitHub: Choosing the right version control service

Sep 19, 202311 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Feature flags for stress-free continuous deployment

Aug 25, 20239 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

DevOps language trends 2023: Top tools used by elite software delivery teams

Aug 16, 20236 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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CD for machine learning: Deploy, monitor, retrain

Aug 2, 202312 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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CI for machine learning: Build, test, train

Jul 28, 202317 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

From a podium, a sole developer manages a complicated multi-purpose robotic machine and its holographic projections.

Solving the top 7 challenges of ML model development

Jun 28, 20236 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

An engineer sits at a desktop running dynamic security tests on a web application.

DAST: A guide to dynamic application security testing

Jun 9, 20237 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Zero trust security for CI/CD pipelines

Jun 1, 20237 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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SAST: A guide to static application security testing

May 24, 20239 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Role-based credential management with OIDC

May 8, 20239 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Static credential management for platform engineers

Apr 28, 20239 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

What is Helm? A complete guide

Mar 16, 20239 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Git tags vs branches: Differences and when to use them

Mar 8, 202310 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

DevOps isn’t dead: How platform engineering enables DevOps at scale

Feb 8, 20238 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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New CircleCI features for secure secrets management

Feb 7, 20236 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

What is platform engineering? A quick introduction

Dec 16, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

A DevOps professional follows a path using onboarding tools provided by CircleCI.

CircleCI onboarding toolkit: User-friendly tools to help you ship sooner

Dec 15, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Is a multicloud strategy right for your organization?

Nov 22, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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DevOps for enterprises

Nov 9, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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What is container orchestration?

Oct 19, 20229 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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How automation drives DevOps success

Oct 19, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Containers vs virtual machines (VMs): What is the difference?

Oct 11, 202211 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Individual units of code are tested beside a component made up of multiple units.

Component testing vs unit testing

Oct 4, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Chaos testing: Reliability for cloud-native apps

Sep 29, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Polyglot persistence vs multi-model databases for microservices

Sep 21, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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DevOps top programming languages support engineering metrics goals

Sep 14, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Mobile app security testing: Tools and best practices

Sep 8, 202211 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Mobile app performance testing: A practical guide

Sep 1, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Native vs cross-platform mobile app development

Aug 24, 20229 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Self-hosted versus cloud-based mobile app testing

Aug 14, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Code signing: securing against supply chain vulnerabilities

Aug 3, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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How testing in the cloud delivers value to development teams

Jul 18, 20229 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Automating compliance in software delivery

Jul 15, 202210 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Two entities orbit a stylized cloud. One, a server, exchanges information two ways. The other, an edge computing device, receives information from the cloud but performs calculations off-cloud.

Edge computing vs cloud computing

Jul 14, 20225 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Configuration as Code (CaC): A guide for DevOps teams

Jul 6, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

A stylized continuous integration tool outputs to 3 servers, each of which has a unique level of security.

Running CI jobs on self-hosted infrastructure

Jul 5, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

A series of linked modules represents elements of the software development process that result in deployment with CircleCI.

Software supply chain: What it is and how to keep it secure

Jun 30, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Trunk-based development vs feature-based development

Jun 21, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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What is cloud bursting?

Jun 14, 20229 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Serverless vs containers: Which is best for your application

Jun 1, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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DevOps for startups

May 25, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Docker image vs container: What are the differences?

May 23, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

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Software bill of materials: What it is and why you need one

May 19, 20226 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Code quality metrics: How to evaluate and improve your code

May 11, 20226 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

A stand-alone computer kiosk shows how software can be tested for whether or not it works (functional) and for how it works (non-functional).

Functional vs non-functional software testing

Apr 20, 20227 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager

Two stylized screens and one laptop show the difference between open-box and closed-box testing.

SAST vs DAST: What they are and when to use them

Apr 15, 20228 min read

Jacob Schmitt

Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager