This edition of XPRT Magazine delivers hands-on guidance for secure DevOps, cloud-native transformation, and developer productivity. Explore real-world stories on security, compliance, automation, and innovation, with practical advice for building resilient, modern software in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Summary of Magazine 11

Security, Compliance, and DevOps

  • Be Secure and Compliant with GitHub: Strategies for building security and compliance into your DevOps pipelines from the start.
  • GitHub Actions: running them securely: Best practices for securing your CI/CD workflows and understanding attack vectors in automation.
  • Securing your Dev’s Workstation: Practical advice for keeping developer environments secure and compliant without sacrificing productivity.

Cloud-Native Transformation and Innovation

  • The shift to cloud-native: Accelerated your innovation: How organizations can transform to leverage cloud-native technologies and accelerate business innovation.
  • Introducing Xpirit Cloud-Native Software Development: Adopting a business perspective for cloud-native application development and operations.
  • Introducing Xpirit DevOps services!: Launching managed DevOps services to enable safe, compliant, and innovative cloud adoption.
  • Never waste a good crisis: how COVID-19 drove innovation in Maritime education: How the pandemic accelerated digital transformation and democratized simulation training in the maritime industry.

Productivity, Learning, and Engineering Culture

  • Creating an open source educational project: Building Azure Functions University to help newcomers learn serverless technology through open source.
  • The reliability paradox: Why less can be more: Examining the trade-offs in reliability, availability, and complexity in cloud applications.
  • Upgrading user interfaces for the future: Modernizing legacy desktop systems for the cloud and rethinking UI design for maritime simulation.
  • Xpirit embraces SPACE framework to measure developer productivity: Applying the SPACE framework to gain insight into developer productivity and its impact on business outcomes.

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