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What is GitOps and how to get started with GitOps

We recently joined a panel on Gitops. This blog will summarize the key nuggets and share tips on where to start

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Jan 25, 2022
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Why I Joined Release

Why the mission of solving development environment availability & private application deployment led me to join Release

Jon Burns
Jon Burns
Jan 4, 2022
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User Acceptance Testing Checklist

User Acceptance Testing Checklist: Follow this checklist to get best results with your UAT testing.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Dec 24, 2021
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How to Prepare For User Acceptance Testing?

In this post you'll learn about various stages of user acceptance testing and tips while preparing for UAT testing.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Dec 22, 2021
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User Acceptance Testing Best Practices

In this blog post you'll learn what is user acceptance testing, and user acceptance testing best practices.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Dec 22, 2021
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What are the Challenges Faced During UAT Testing?

In this blog post you'll learn the challenges in UAT testing and examples of user acceptance testing environment.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Dec 20, 2021
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A car production line gaining productivity creating a ephemeral environment
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Improving Developer Productivity with Ephemeral Environments

Release Environments can help improve Developer productivity.

Sam Allen
Sam Allen
Nov 11, 2021
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Founders pictures with Release Series A funding announcement
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CRV + Release - aligned from the beginning - now with $20M in new fuel

Message from Co-Founder, Tommy McClung, regarding Release's $20M Series A funding round led by CRV.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Oct 5, 2021
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A person hands holding wires and making tests on a circuit board
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How To Write Route53 Stubbed Responses For Rspec Tests

Short Example for writing AWS Ruby SDK unit tests for Route53 API calls with stubbed responses

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Sep 14, 2021
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How Release Uses Action Cable and Redux Toolkit

Walk through setting up Action Cable messages that are received by a React Component hooked up to Redux Toolkit.

Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jul 15, 2021
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Contributing To Open Source - Getting Started

Contributing to open source projects can be very fulfilling, but getting started may be intimidating and confusing. Most

Vicky Koblinski
Vicky Koblinski
Jun 11, 2021
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Kubernetes Probes: SRE Anywhere Lightning Talk

Regis Wilson presents a 5 minute video submission for a lightning talk presentation at the SRE From Anywhere event.

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Jun 10, 2021
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Rope passing on rock climbing pitons conveying the idea of Webhook Authentication
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Webhook Authentication Learnings for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

I was recently tasked with implementing GitLab support for Release and to complete that task I needed to implement authe

Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jun 2, 2021
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Workflow of development environment with Increase on Developer Velocity by Removing Environment Bottlenecks
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Increase Developer Velocity by Removing Environment Bottlenecks

In our latest whitepaper, we show how to increase developer velocity by 35% using Environments as a Service.

Sam Allen
Sam Allen
May 6, 2021
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Sequoia logo representing the $2.7M Seed round led by Sequoia Capital
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Release your Ideas with Environments as a Service. Fueled by a Seed Round from Sequoia.

Today we are super excited to announce our $2.7M Seed round led by Sequoia Capital.

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Apr 29, 2021
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Illustration showing the developer environment created by Release
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Overcome the DevOps Talent Gap with Environments as a Service

Is your company affected by the DevOps talent scarcity and how do you catch up to your competitors?

Amanda Peer
Amanda Peer
Mar 31, 2021
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A doctor checking the health of a patient representing stability of applications
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Kubernetes Health Checks - 2 Ways to Improve Stability in Your Production Applications

These two methods for using Kubernetes health checks will improve your applications running in production.

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Mar 24, 2021
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A man playing chess representing game changers in SaaS Sales Demos
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Great SaaS Sales Demos - 3 Game Changers

Great SaaS sales demos using these three game changers enabled by Release environments.

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Mar 18, 2021
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Dozens of colorful sunflowers representing the diversity of EaaS
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Environments as a Service (EaaS) - Top 3 benefits

Everything is a service these days; Everything as a Service (XaaS) actually exists. So you can be forgiven for not

Erik Landerholm
Erik Landerholm
Mar 8, 2021
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5
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Two wrestling athletes fighting representing why Kubernetes infrastructure is hard
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Why Is Kubernetes So Hard - 4 Reasons Why And What to do About it

Kubernetes (k8s) has been all the rage for the last few years because application orchestration has become a de facto

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Mar 1, 2021
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10 Best Practices When Using Feature Flags

This post will explore what feature flags are, answer common questions, and discuss the best practices for using them.

Israel Oyetunji
Israel Oyetunji
Mar 1, 2021
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Two athletes cycling in high speed representing the developer velocity
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5 Ways To Improve Developer Velocity Using Ephemeral Environments

Learn how to measure/improve developer velocity

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Feb 22, 2021
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Cutting Build Time In Half with Docker’s Buildx Kubernetes Driver

At Release, environments are our main focus, but we can’t create environments without builds. Recently we undertook a pr

Jeremy Kreutzbender
Jeremy Kreutzbender
Feb 17, 2021
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Kubernetes

Kubernetes Pods Advanced Concepts Explained

In this blog post we’ll investigate certain advanced concepts related to Kubernetes init containers, sidecars

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Feb 8, 2021
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Release on Corey Quinn podcast “Screaming in the Cloud”
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Podcast Guest on Screaming in the Cloud

I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Corey Quinn on his excellent podcast, “Screaming in the Cloud”. The far-ranging

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Jan 27, 2021
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Kubernetes - How to Debug CrashLoopBackOff in a Container

If you’ve used Kubernetes (k8s), you’ve probably bumped into the dreaded CrashLoopBackOff. A CrashLoopBackOff is possibl

David Giffin
David Giffin
Jan 25, 2021
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You don't need to know what you’re doing, you need an agile DevOps methodology

Do you ever feel like you have no idea what you’re doing? Like you’re just kind of going along with things, doing your b

Vicky Koblinski
Vicky Koblinski
Jan 5, 2021
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How To: Get a Free Minecraft Server Running on Release

Setup your own free Minecraft Server running on release.com One of the coolest things about working at Release

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Dec 14, 2020
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Feature Flags and Ephemeral Environments

Learn about feature flags in devops, feature flags and ephemeral environments, and more.

Erik Landerholm
Erik Landerholm
Dec 2, 2020
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A man driving a boat
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Awesome-release: Tons of Working Release Examples Running in Hosted Kubernetes

I Need/Want/Love Examples I know that when I try out a new product, if it’s hard to see what it does quickly I usually

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Nov 18, 2020
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How to Delete Hundreds or Thousands of Route53 DNS Entries

How do Delete Hundreds, or Possibly Thousands of Route53 DNS Entries Quickly and Easily

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Oct 13, 2020
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Pile of trash representing bad Kubernetes Config Files
Kubernetes

How Do You Make Kubernetes Config Files Not Suck?

I know that when I try out a new product if it’s hard to see what it does quickly I usually move on.

Regis Wilson
Regis Wilson
Aug 16, 2020
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The man in the moon symbolizing the Release mission
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The Release Mission

Hey everyone, we’re Tommy, David and Erik, co-founders of Release. We wanted to take a minute and kick off our blog with

Tommy McClung
Tommy McClung
Apr 30, 2020
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