Happy February Earthlings!

I'm Adam, and welcome to the latest Earthly newsletter, where I share the most popular articles and tutorials from the Earthly blog in the last 30 or so days.

Top Blog Content

​Rust, Ruby, and the Art of Implicit Returns​

This article explores the concept of implicit returns, if-expressions, match-expressions, and single-expression functions in programming languages like Rust, Ruby and Scala.

​Showboaters, Maximalists and You​

This article encourages developers to explore and learn new language features and idioms but to apply them judiciously, especially in shared or inheritable codebases, to avoid creating barriers for others.

​Building a Monorepo with Rust​

This article explores the benefits of using monorepos in Rust projects, including simplified dependency management, consistent versioning, and enhanced code reuse.

​How Earthly Solved Our CI Problem​

In this guest post, the Konfig team discusses how they solved their complex Continuous Integration challenges with Earthly, sharing insights valuable for any software development team.

​Building a Monorepo with Python​

A tutorial on building a monorepo with Python using Pants and then showing how Earthly compares. Also covers some benefits of monorepos for Python code.

​How to Handle Secrets with BuildKit​

This tutorial explores how to handle secrets securely during the Docker image build process using BuildKit.

Product News

Reminder: Earthly is an open-source tool that simplifies software builds, ensuring consistency across environments. Earthly Satellites are remote build runners that are compatible with any CI and make builds faster. Sign up for Earthly Cloud to receive 6,000 build minutes per month on Satellites for free.

​Announcing Earthly v0.8​

Announcing Earthly v0.8. This release brings several new features and improvements, such as Auto-skip (in Beta) for improved performance in monorepos, enhanced ARG handling, and improved performance for outputting images from remote runners.

That's it. See you in March,

Adam

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