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LayerCI's Free 2 hour DevOps Engineering Course with FreeCodeCamp

Why we made this course DevOps education has always been core to what we do here at LayerCI - making it easier for software developers and product stakeholders to master

Customer Success

Event Software: Welcome leverages LayerCI preview environments to ensure stable customer experiences

Welcome is a virtual and hybrid event platform that lets users create virtual conferences, webinars and internal meeting experiences that feel like Apple keynotes. Reliability is extremely important to Welcome, as even a brief delay would derail the entire user experience.

LayerCI Team

LayerCI product update – May 2021

Our team is always working hard to make the LayerCI experience better for our users. Here are some of the changes that we made in the month of May 2021:

Product Demo

Secrets management at scale + demo with Doppler and LayerCI

Watch the full session below on-demand: Jump to: 0:00 Intro 0:08 DevSecOps shift left movement 1:00 Importance of secrets management + risk mitigation 4:10 Live Demo of

LayerCI Team

LayerCI's 1 Hour Synthwave Coding Music Mix "Outrun Repeatable"

Dear developers - this one's for you! LayerCI presents: the world premiere of our first 1 hour in-house curated programming mix “OUTRUN REPEATABLE” by DJ Stranger. This is the perfect

Customer Success

B2B FinTech: Pulley’s engineers create advanced LayerCI workflows to serve 1000+ startups

What is Pulley? Pulley is a cap table management platform helping hyper-growth startups save money, move faster, and simplify their employee/investor equity information. Founded by serial entrepreneur and software

Product Demo

May 2021: GitHub + LayerCI Pull Request Automation Demo

Watch the full session below on-demand: Jump to: 0:00 Intro 0:06 Agenda 0:23 3 DevOps Engineering Pillars 1:16 Developer Experience (DX) when it comes to pull

Customer Success

B2B SaaS: how Fellow powers collaboration and hackathon culture

Fellow is a B2B SaaS company. They are the market leader in enterprise meeting management software for clients such as Uber, Shopify, Webflow and Gong.

Engineering Talks

Lessons from startups to technical PM at Coinbase (video) ft. Chetan Rane

Hello and welcome to another episode of LayerCI's engineering talks. Check back every end of month on Linkedin or Twitter for new engineering talks and if you'd like to come

Academy

Vital production metrics and how to collect them

Metric aggregation tools measure and store numerical data to understand what is happening in production.

Academy

What is Log Aggregation?

What is Log Aggregation? It's a way of collecting and tagging application logs from many different services into a single dashboard that can easily be searched.

Academy

What is Code Coverage?

Code Coverage quantitatively measures how comprehensive a code base's tests are. Increasing code coverage often increases stability and reduces bugs.

Academy

What is Test Driven Development?

Test driven development is a coding methodology where tests are written before the code is written.

Academy

Service discovery

Service discovery is how different services "learn" about each-other in order to connect.

CI

Crypto miners are killing free CI

CI providers like LayerCI, GitLab, TravisCI, and Shippable are all worsening or shutting down their free tiers due to cryptocurrency mining attacks.

Academy

The difference between VMs and containers

The primary difference between Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers is that the former is more powerful, but the latter is faster.

Customer Success

HealthTech: how Vitau moves faster with demo environments for docker compose

Vitau is a HealthTech company. They're the leading subscription pharmacy for chronic disease patients in Mexico - delivering both prescription medicine and insurance reimbursements.

Academy

What is a blue/green deployment?

Blue/green deployments are a strategy to deploy a new version of an application. They work by starting an entirely new instance of the application, and then routing traffic over to it.

Academy

Linting best practices

Linters are programs that look at a program's source code and find problems automatically. They are a common feature of pull request automation because they ensure that "obvious" bugs do

Academy

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a methodology that helps engineering teams build better products by continuously integrating user feedback.

Best Practices

What is Jenkins Used For?

Jenkins is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tool. It improves the development lifecycle by automating software building, testing, and deployment. One of the largest benefits of Jenkins

Academy

What are rolling deployments?

Rolling deployments are a strategy to deploy a new version of an application without causing downtime. They work by creating a single instance of the new version of an application, then shutting off one instance of the old version until all instances have been upgraded.

Academy

What is autoscaling?

Autoscaling automates horizontal scaling to ensure that the number of workers is proportional to the load on the system.

Remote Life

Asynchronous communication: when meetings could be emails

We've all had days where we've found ourselves in meeting after meeting, and might've ended up thinking, "Could that have been an email?" It's important to think about how we

Best Practices

LayerCI vs. Semaphore CI

Summary:Why is CI/CD important?Is Semaphore the best CI/CD solution for your business?LayerCI capabilities missing in SemaphoreSemaphore vs. LayerCI comparison summaryWhy businesses switch to LayerCIHow to