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Mike Vizard

Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.

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Second Coming of Shai-Hulud Cyberattack Ravages JavaScript Repositories

A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headache for DevSecOps teams around the globe. Based on what is being described as the “Second Coming” of Shai-Hulud, this version affects a much wider range of npms and is much […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 25, 2025
Video Interviews

Humans in the Loop: Governing AI Agents Across the SDLC

AI agents are moving from novelty to necessity in software delivery—and with that shift, the developer’s role is changing. Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations for GitLab, explores what happens when every engineer works alongside a small “team” of agents: some personal, some shared across squads, and others assigned to specific lifecycle […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 24, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

This Thanksgiving week, we share a fresh DevOps jobs report: Top roles and opportunities for professionals looking to level up their careers.

Mike Vizard · Nov 24, 2025
AI

AlertD Emerges to Apply AI to Observing AWS Environments

AlertD this week emerged from stealth to launch a DevOps platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to provide deeper insights into Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments by automatically generating dashboards that make it possible to more easily discover and visualize issues. Fresh off raising $3 million in initial funding, AlertD CEO Geoff Hendrey said […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 20, 2025
Blogs

Splunk Donates OpenTelemetry Injector Library to Open Source Instrumentation Framework

Splunk, an arm of Cisco, has donated an OpenTelemetry Injector library it developed for streamlining instrumentation of applications that have not been containerized, to the open source project that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Greg Leffler, director of developer evangelism for Splunk, said this latest contribution to […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 20, 2025
AI

Tessl Details Plan to Build Platform for Managing AI Agents Embedded in DevOps Workflows

Tessl today outlined a plan to extend a registry it created for specifications that govern the behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) agents being used to build software to create a platform for creating, distributing and observing those specifications. Speaking at a DevCon Fall 2025 conference hosted by the company, Tessl CEO Guy Podjarny said that […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 19, 2025
Blogs

System Initiative Extends Reach of IT Infrastructure Automation Platform

System Initiative today revealed it is now extending the reach of its digital twin platform for automating the management of IT infrastructure to any cloud computing environment, including now out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean and Hetzner services, along with existing support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nick Stinemates, vice president of business development […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 18, 2025
AI

AWS Extends Kiro AI Tool to Generate Higher Quality Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today with the general availability of its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool added additional capabilities, including a version that can now be invoked via a command line interface (CLI). At the same time, Kiro now enables property-based testing (PBT) to measure whether the code generated matches the behavior defined in […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 17, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 17, 2025
AI

Chronosphere Adds AI Remediation Guidance to Observability Platform

Chronosphere this week previewed artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are embedded into its observability platform that, in addition to helping identify the root cause of an issue, also provides remediation suggestions. Additionally, the company made available a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server through which AI coding tools and agents will be able to query observability […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 13, 2025
Blogs

JFrog Adds Ability to Track Usage of AI Coding Tools

JFrog introduces AI-Generated Code Detection and Shadow AI Detection tools to identify AI-created code, track model usage, and enhance DevSecOps governance across software supply chains.

Mike Vizard · Nov 13, 2025
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Multiple DevOps Platform Migration Challenges

A survey of 300 enterprise IT and technology leaders published this week finds that while 85% work for organizations that have completed DevOps platform migrations in the last two years, only a quarter (25%) said consolidation delivered expected value within a year. Conducted by the market research firm TrendCandy on behalf of CloudBees, the survey […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 12, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps brings you a weekly jobs report, including, this week, opportunities at Amentum, Oliver James and Morgan Stanley Services Group.

Mike Vizard · Nov 10, 2025
Blogs

AWS to Help Fund Open VSX Registry Hosted by Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation this week revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing funds needed to strengthen the reliability, performance and security of the infrastructure used to make the Open VSX Registry, an online marketplace for Visual Studio Code extensions. Like other AI coding tools, the Kiro tool developed by AWS relies heavily on Visual […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 6, 2025
AI

Qovery Adds Multiple AI Agents to DevOps Automation Platform

Qovery has added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps automation platform that, in addition to responding to natural language prompts and executing complex operations, also anticipates the next step in a workflow. Company CEO Romaric Philogène said the AI DevOps Copilot family of AI agents automate a range of tasks, including provisioning environments, […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 6, 2025
AI

Tabnine Adds Agents Capable of Automating Workflows to AI Coding Platform

Tabnine introduces Tabnine Agentic, a new generation of AI agents that automate multi-step DevOps workflows including refactoring, debugging, and documentation. Built on Tabnine’s Context Engine, these agents bring governance, cost control, and compliance to AI-powered code development.

Mike Vizard · Nov 5, 2025
AI

Observe Adds Two AI Agents to Improve Observability

Observe Inc. introduces the AI SRE Agent and o11y.ai Agent to its observability platform—empowering DevOps teams to automate incident triage, generate OpenTelemetry code, and query application performance using natural language for faster, smarter debugging.

Mike Vizard · Nov 4, 2025
AI

Kong Adds MCP Support to Tool for Designing and Testing APIs

Kong Inc. has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) support into Insomnia 12, enabling DevOps teams to design, test, and secure MCP clients and servers for AI-driven APIs—reducing misconfigurations and enhancing compliance in rapidly evolving AI environments.

Mike Vizard · Nov 4, 2025