C and C++ remain popular among developers across various industries due to their performance and expressiveness, despite facing significant challenges such as long build times, diverse platforms, and a lack of standards for open-source software. A featured article on DevOps.com explores these challenges and discusses modern DevOps practices and tools that can address them, highlighting a case study that employs Conan and JFrog Artifactory. Diego Rodriguez-Losada, a software engineer at JFrog and creator of the open-source C/C++ package manager Conan.io, emphasizes the power and appeal of C++ for programmers. The article includes a diagram illustrating a continuous integration cycle for C/C++ using Conan, Artifactory, and Jenkins with build systems like CMake, Visual Studio, and MakeFile.