No, it is an article that includes a short in-article ad for Linear. It's the text equivalent of when a YouTube video thanks some company for sponsoring the video and spends 30 seconds saying some good things about them before resuming whatever the video is about.

This is good. This is the kind of advertising that people here usually say that sites should be using if they need ads.

When a video says "so check out NordVPN" before returning to gardening content, I don't have any concerns that the gardening content is influenced by the advertising - they're unrelated. This article is about software development and contains an ad which is irrelevant to everything but software development. That's completely different.