Ron Powell
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Ron Powell is a Director of Marketing at CircleCI, where he leads data-driven marketing initiatives, manages a team of content managers, and oversees the company’s marketing website. With a unique background in space physics (having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn’s magnetosphere), Ron brings scientific precision and analytical thinking to developer marketing. Before joining CircleCI, Ron was a developer evangelist at Samsung Electronics, where he specialized in emerging technologies including 360-degree video production, VR applications, wearables, and IoT.
DORA is right: AI is an amplifier, for better or worse
Director, Web and Content Strategy
How CircleCI implemented llms.txt for better AI discoverability
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Cloud cost-optimization strategies
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Testing in production is not as scary as it sounds
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Recovering from the Git detached HEAD state
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: how to choose a container orchestration tool
Director, Web and Content Strategy
7 Benefits of testing in isolation
Director, Web and Content Strategy
SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Deploying vs releasing: What you should know to prevent outages
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Functional programming vs object-oriented programming (OOP)
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Tips for designing distributed systems
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Benefits of containerization
Director, Web and Content Strategy
SQL vs NoSQL databases
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Top 8 uses of cloud computing
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Top 6 advantages of software as a service
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Top 6 benefits of virtualization
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How to reduce flaky test failures
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Benefits and challenges of monorepo development practices
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Canary vs blue-green deployment to reduce downtime
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Continuous integration with GitOps
Director, Web and Content Strategy
How to secure your CI pipeline
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Scaling my application: am I ready?
Director, Web and Content Strategy
You don’t need to migrate from Jenkins. Start building beside it.
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Is my CI pipeline vulnerable?
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Continuous integration for mobile application development
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Essential DevOps principles
Director, Web and Content Strategy
How to measure DevOps success: 4 key metrics
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Do I really need Kubernetes?
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Feedback loops: the key to improving mean time to recovery
Director, Web and Content Strategy
Getting your manager to say ‘yes’ to DevOps tools
Director, Web and Content Strategy