Molly Fosco

An introduction to pipelines A CI/CD pipeline is the most fundamental component of automated software development. While the term has been used to describe many different aspects of computer science, at CircleCI, and within much of the DevOps…

Women in San Francisco have their first child at a later age than women anywhere else in the country, according to a 2018 analysis from the New York Times. Married women in SF with a college degree have their first child at age 32.9 on average,…

Getting your developers to embrace metrics isn’t about hand-selecting specific metrics to track. It’s about disseminating the company’s mission, tracking the metrics that work best for your team, and using them to achieve larger, shared goals. In…

Imagine this: As you make your usual rounds in the grocery store, a tall, white, rectangular statue suddenly floats past you down the aisle. It’s some kind of robot but it’s so quiet, you barely notice it’s there. A store clerk comes up to ask if you…

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, many Chinese mainlanders have limited ways to access information about what’s going on. Online censorship in China is common, but the government’s censoring technology has become so advanced, they’re…

The developer security platform scales with CI/CD The challenge Everyone worries about cybersecurity – developers included. For that group, which has unique worries about vulnerabilities in their code, Snyk offers a developer security platform, which…

When the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was first announced last year, many tech companies had no idea what to expect. The proposed law could have huge implications for how businesses collect and store user data. The new regulation, which…

Loi Laing was a teacher and a lawyer for most of her career but always had an interest in technology — she even taught herself to code. But Laing, 42, a self-described “people person,” felt that becoming an engineer would be too isolating. She wanted…

In April, we welcomed Cack Wilhelm, a partner at venture capital firm IVP, to the CircleCI board of directors. Cack is our first female board member and previously worked with CircleCI during our Series B while at Scale Venture Partners. At IVP, Cack…

Axios standardized their build processes with CircleCI to stay competitive amid the changing landscape of digital media The challenge These are challenging times for media: between massive disruption in how people consume news and the impact of the…

With CircleCI’s automations, config policies, and insights, Eventbrite’s engineering org saves costs and reduces downtime by 90 min per developer per week. A few years ago, Principal Engineer at Eventbrite, Steven Reynolds, was consistently…

Hopefully you’re getting used to the four walls of your apartment serving double-duty as the four walls of your office in recent days. Maybe you’re adjusting nicely to attending meetings in sweatpants, and writing emails with the warm comfort of your…

Today we are celebrating two big milestones — our nine-year anniversary and adding our one-millionth developer to the platform. A lot has happened at CircleCI since the company first launched. We’ve run more than 16,795 cumulative years of builds…

The last time you picked up a call from an unknown number, only to find it was your alma mater calling to ask for a donation, did you answer it? Or did you make up an excuse to get off the phone as quickly as possible? If you did the latter, you’re…

Today we unveiled new and updated Salesforce orbs - integrations that bundle CircleCI configuration into reusable packages - to make it easier for developers to build, test, and deploy Salesforce apps. Our newest Salesforce Apex orb allows Apex…

It’s no secret that working at home with kids is a challenge. San Francisco tech leaders shared with us some of their best practices for managing it all. Working from home full-time has been a tough adjustment for many people, but perhaps none more…

A few months before the California Consumer Privacy Act would go into effect on January 1, 2020, the California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, issued a set of proposed regulations as part of the new law. Under CCPA, consumers have the right to…

Non-salaried employees are most vulnerable to loss of income right now, but the tech community is offering support. As the world tries fiercely to quell the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people are feeling the economic fallout. The hospitality…

For some, the decision to hold fewer meetings is having surprisingly powerful benefits. When meeting notes startup Hugo decided to instate a maximum of four hours of meetings per week, they noticed something interesting. By forgoing meetings, and…

Expensify’s CEO originally wanted to feed San Francisco’s homeless. His company can now do that with a socially conscious credit card. When David Barrett was living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood 10 years ago, he passed by the same…