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title: "Roadshow: Avoiding the Hidden Cost of DevOps Toolchains"
description: "Join GitLab and guest speaker Christopher Condo for an interactive discussion on toolchain complexity and how to manage the visibility, security and productivity challenges."
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    %h3 Roadshow: Avoiding the Hidden Cost of DevOps Toolchains
    %p Join us for our roadshow this Fall with guest speaker, Forrester Principal Analyst Chris Condo to discuss how to reduce toolchain complexity and manage visibility, security and productive challenges.

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              %p Registration is free, so save your spot today to learn from the industry's best minds!
              %p Learn how to:
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                %li Spend more time writing code, less maintaining toolchains
                %li Decrease toolchain downtime
                %li Improve toolchain security
                %li Increase developer capacity and efficiency
                %li Increase agility to respond to the market
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              .speaker-name Christopher Condo
              .speaker-role Principal Analyst
              %p.speaker-bio Chris serves Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) Professionals. He is part of Forrester's AD&D coverage of DevOps tool chains, focusing on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) as well as software development strategies for enabling those strategies.

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              %h3 All scheduled events are over.<br/>Please come back later to see what we have planned.