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  "name": "Azure Pipelines",
  "description": "Azure Pipelines is a cloud service that automatically builds and tests code projects to make them available to others. It works with just about any language or project type and combines continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to test and build code and ship it to any target.",
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  "category": "Software Development Tools",
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      "slug": "aws-codepipeline",
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    },
    {
      "slug": "github-actions",
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    },
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    "founded": "2018 (as Azure Pipelines)",
    "headquarters": "Redmond, Washington, USA",
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    "target_markets": "Enterprise software development teams, DevOps engineers, IT organizations in regulated industries.",
    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
    "funding_stage": "Not publicly available",
    "subcategory": "CI/CD Platforms"
  },
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      "Self-hosted Jenkins: Setting up and maintaining a self-hosted Jenkins server to manage build and release cycles."
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