Last week we had a successful launch of our new SaaS version of N|Solid, making it possible for millions of developers to leverage the powerful insights and security that Enterprise self-hosted companies have experienced for years from NodeSource. I couldn’t be more proud of the great work our team put in to make this (and so many other product advances) happen.

Minimizing and automating the path from development and production is necessary in order to stay competitive and keep customers happy. As engineering teams strive to solve this by quickly and efficiently rolling out new features, updates, and bug fixes, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) has come to be regarded as an industry best practice. One of the most popular CI/CD solutions is Jenkins, an open-source job execution system.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of residents and commuters in San Francisco, California, use the public transportation services of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). In addition to the city’s buses, subway system, and famous cable cars, the SFMTA manages comprehensive services including bicycle and e-scooter rentals, as well as permits for road closures.

January 2020 is a distant memory, but for most, the early days of the pandemic was a time that will be ingrained in memories for decades, if not generations. Over the last 18 months, supply chain issues have dominated our nightly news, social feeds and family conversations at the dinner table. Some but not all have stemmed from the pandemic.