Part 1: Deploy [news] Friday! Your weekly update from Platform.sh and Blackfire.io 📣
Tags: news, webdev, opensource, cloud
Published: 2023-08-04 10:09:55

Welcome to part one of our brand-new weekly series where we share all the news you need to know from Platform.sh, Blackfire.io and from around the open-source community.

What do we have in store this week? Let's dive in 😎.

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**Deploy Friday: Project spotlight** ✨

![Deploy Friday Project spotlight Pablo Dip - Integrating a deployment counter to your CI/CD pipeline](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/62xl7el47yb95ui35x47.png)

In this week's project spotlight, we feature Pablo Dip a DevOps and security enthusiast. Check out his tutorial on how to [integrate a deployment counter to your CI/CD pipeline](https://pablodip.me/post/deployment-counter/). 

Want your open-source project featured? Drop a comment on this post with a link to your open-source project. 🔥

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**Power-up Your Local Development with DDEV** 🚀


![Power-up Your Local Development with DDEV](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ly4u8f22dnqivjzn29m0.jpg)

Have you ever had to set up and/or maintain a local development environment using Docker that mirrors your production environment as much as possible? 

Setting-up and supporting such a docker-based local environment is no easy feat! Common problems include performance issues, broken dependencies, broken relationships between your services and uncontrolled updates of your docker images, among many other issues.

So, the question is, what can we do about that? 

[DDEV: The simplest way to integrate containers on top of Docker. ](https://platform.sh/blog/powerup-your-local-development-with-ddev/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=platformsh_blog&utm_id=blog) 

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**Empower your performance optimization with live actionable insights** 🎯


![Launching into continuous observability with Blackfire Monitoring](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6jkv0iqo5vb5ardvp7jd.png)

Want to kickstart your continuous observability strategy with a 360 overview of your applications’ health? Let's help you launch into continuous observability with Blackfire Monitoring.

It takes a holistic approach to continuous observability. And provides a bird’s-eye view of the health of your applications enabling you to identify and drill drown on performance issues. Not only can you discover what issues occurred but also when and where it happened.

Once you have a diagnosis, it’s time to dig even deeper into a specific function or service call with Blackfire Profiler. The Profiler helps you understand why the incident occurred by visualizing the actual behavior of the application and providing a granular analysis, assisting you in crafting an effective solution.

[Empowering your performance optimization with live actionable insights](https://blog.blackfire.io/launching-into-continuous-observability-with-blackfire-monitoring-empowering-developers-with-live-actionable-insights.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=blackfire_blog&utm_id=blog)

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See you next week for another instalment 👏.

**Leave a like and a comment to let us know what you would like to see in this series. And drop a link below to your open-source project as we ❤️ to share!**