February 2021 Summaries

Security in software is now a shared responsibility among all teams and users, as no single entity can guarantee trustworthiness. This is where Cloudsmith comes in, providing the ability to build trust within your own teams or with customers by allowing use of custom domain names for repositories. This matters because it enhances Identity and Brand Awareness, provides Security and Control, and offers Flexibility. By using a custom domain, you have control over implementing security features like DNSSEC and CAA, reducing typo-squatting, and can easily switch vendors without affecting build definitions, package manager configurations, and scripts, making it fully decoupled.

JFrog has announced the sunset of their Bintray distribution add-on to their Artifactory product and officially shut it down on May 1, 2021. The service is now being redirected to Jcenter, with Cloudsmith emerging as a direct replacement. Cloudsmith was built from the ground up to solve package management and software distribution challenges in a cloud-enabled world, offering a fast, secure, reliable, single-product platform with global infrastructure. This move is seen as an opportunity for innovation and better products for engineers worldwide, as two major league companies compete to provide the best solution for package management and secure supply chains.