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Bitbucket vs JFrog Artifactory: What are the differences?
Bitbucket is a Git repository management solution, while JFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager. Let's explore the key differences between them.
Integration with Version Control Systems: Bitbucket is primarily a Git repository management solution, offering support for both Git and Mercurial version control systems. On the other hand, JFrog Artifactory is not limited to Git repositories and supports various version control systems, including Git, Subversion, and more.
Artifact Management: While Bitbucket primarily focuses on version control and collaboration, JFrog Artifactory is designed specifically for artifact repository management, providing robust features for storing, managing, and distributing software artifacts.
Support for Package Types: Bitbucket predominantly supports code repositories, whereas JFrog Artifactory extends its support to various package types, including Docker images, npm packages, Maven artifacts, and more. This broader support allows JFrog Artifactory to handle a wider range of software development use cases.
Advanced Access Control: Bitbucket offers basic access control mechanisms such as permission levels (read, write, admin), but JFrog Artifactory provides more advanced access control features. With JFrog Artifactory, you can define fine-grained access policies, manage user groups, set up LDAP integration, and enforce strict security policies for artifacts.
Build Integration: Bitbucket offers limited build integration capabilities, providing features like Bamboo (Atlassian's continuous integration and delivery tool) integration. In contrast, JFrog Artifactory has built-in integration with popular build tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, and Bamboo, allowing seamless integration of the artifact management process with the build pipeline.
Advanced Metadata and Search Capabilities: JFrog Artifactory provides advanced metadata and search capabilities, allowing users to add custom metadata to artifacts, perform complex searches based on metadata, and utilize powerful search queries. These features are not as extensive in Bitbucket, which focuses more on source code management.
In summary, Bitbucket is primarily a Git repository management tool with basic artifact management capabilities, while JFrog Artifactory is a comprehensive artifact repository management solution that supports various package types, offers advanced access control, build integration, and powerful metadata and search capabilities.
Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?
If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:
- Pick the correct target branch
- Make Drafts explicit
- Name things properly
- Ask help for tools
- Remove the noise
- Fetch necessary data
- Understand Mergeability
- Pass the message
- Add screenshots
- Be found in the future
- Comment inline in your changes
Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D
What else do you review before asking for code review?
One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i
is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.
It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.
Pros of Bitbucket
- Free private repos905
- Simple setup397
- Nice ui and tools349
- Unlimited private repositories342
- Affordable git hosting240
- Integrates with many apis and services123
- Reliable uptime119
- Nice gui87
- Pull requests and code reviews85
- Very customisable58
- Mercurial repositories16
- SourceTree integration14
- JIRA integration12
- Track every commit to an issue in JIRA10
- Deployment hooks8
- Best free alternative to Github8
- Automatically share repositories with all your teammates7
- Source Code Insight7
- Compatible with Mac and Windows7
- Price6
- Login with Google5
- Create a wiki5
- Approve pull request button5
- Customizable pipelines4
- #2 Atlassian Product after JIRA4
- Unlimited Private Repos at no cost3
- Also supports Mercurial3
- Continuous Integration and Delivery3
- Mercurial Support2
- Multilingual interface2
- Teamcity2
- Open source friendly2
- Issues tracker2
- IAM2
- Academic license program2
- IAM integration2
Pros of JFrog Artifactory
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Cons of Bitbucket
- Not much community activity19
- Difficult to review prs because of confusing ui17
- Quite buggy15
- Managed by enterprise Java company10
- CI tool is not free of charge8
- Complexity with rights management7
- Only 5 collaborators for private repos6
- Slow performance4
- No AWS Codepipelines integration2
- No more Mercurial repositories1
- No server side git-hook support1