December 2019 Summaries

Azure Pipelines allows users to automate their builds, tests, and deployments, making it easier for them to focus on writing applications. As application security ownership shifts left, building security policy into Azure Pipelines becomes critical. The Snyk Security Scan task integrates with Azure Pipelines, scanning application dependencies and container images for open source security vulnerabilities as part of the CI/CD workflow, providing users with a way to test and monitor for vulnerabilities quickly and easily.

Peter McKay, CEO of Snyk, was recognized as a top 10 "Best CEO" by Comparably's Best Places to Work awards 2019. The award is based on anonymous employee ratings submitted between November 2018-19. Throughout his career, McKay has been guided by fundamental principles of learning from every opportunity and taking big risks. He advises companies in hyper-growth phases to prioritize customer needs, hire smart people, build a culture around trust and empowerment, and focus on being a team player.

Deploying a Gatsby site to GitHub Pages from Travis CI` A developer recently set up a static website using Gatsby and deployed it to GitHub Pages. They chose to use the `master` branch for their website's source code, which is hosted in the `docs/` directory, and pushed the generated static website files to the `gh-pages` branch. To automate this process, they used the `gh-pages` module with a GitHub token obtained through the personal access tokens feature. The developer created a new secret environment variable named `GH_TOKEN` in their Travis CI configuration and updated their `package.json` file to include a deployment script that invokes `gh-pages`. They also updated their `.travis.yml` file to run the deployment script on the `master` branch. This process allows for easy deployment of Gatsby websites to GitHub Pages using Travis CI.