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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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Why Developer Discipline Matters More Than Ever in the AI Era

Snyk CTO Danny Allan warns that the rapid adoption of generative AI coding tools could create a new wave of vulnerabilities across the global software supply chain. As developers increasingly rely on AI assistants to generate, modify, and deploy code, Allan said the industry risks entering what he called a “software security crisis” — one […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 31, 2025
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Vulnerabilities in Code Generated by AI

A survey of 450 IT professionals in the U.S. and Europe finds 69% of organizations have discovered vulnerabilities in code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with 20% reporting there has been a serious incident as a result. Conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of Aikido Security, a provider of a platform of discovering vulnerabilities […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 29, 2025
Blogs

AppOmni Open Sources Heisenberg Tool to Scan Pull Requests for Dependencies

AppOmni has made available an open source tool that automatically scans pull requests (PRs) to flag risky or newly published dependencies before they are merged. Dubbed Heisenberg, the tool can also be used to create a software bill of materials (SBOMs) that makes it easier to discover dependencies as code is being written. Yevhen Grinman, […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 29, 2025
AI

GitHub Adds Platform for Managing AI Agents Embedded in DevOps Workflows

GitHub today launched a platform for managing artificial intelligence (AI) agent workflows across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Announced at the GitHub Universe 2025 conference, Agent HQ makes it possible to unify the management of AI agents developed by not just GitHub but also third-party providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and xAI. As […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 28, 2025
AI

Survey Surfaces Impact AI Coding Tools Are Having on DevOps Workflows

A survey of 206 IT leaders and executives finds that, with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, more application development teams are devoting more time to reviewing rather than writing code. Conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) on behalf of Perforce, the survey finds 57% of developers now spend more time on code […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 28, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Discover the latest DevOps job openings in this week’s DevOps.com report. Explore top companies like Adobe, Zoom, Costco IT, and more hiring DevOps engineers nationwide with competitive salaries and growth opportunities.

Mike Vizard · Oct 27, 2025
Blogs

BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS

BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 24, 2025
AI

Opsera Adds AI Agent Capable of Analyzing Quality of Code Generated by AI Tools

Opsera today added an artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning agent to its platform that is specifically trained to surface in real time how DevOps teams are deriving value from investments in AI coding tools. At the same time, Opsera is adding to its namesake platform for managing and automating DevOps workflows an ability to integrate with […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 23, 2025
AI

Analysis Identifies 10 AI Coding Tool Behaviors That Ignore Best Software Engineering Practices

An analysis of more than 300 open source repositories published today by Ox Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) platform, identifies 10 systematic behaviors of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools that ignore established best practices for software engineering. Eyal Paz, vice president of research at OX Security, said that while policies […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 23, 2025
AI

Cycode Previews Ability to Identify AI Tools and Platforms Used to Write Code

Cycode today announced it is providing early access to a capability that identifies which artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools are being employed by application developers in addition to adding an AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) that also identifies what underlying technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), are being invoked. Devin Maguire, senior product marketing […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 21, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Moving career? The DevOps job opportunities highlighted this week include roles at Viasat, CTG, Dell Technologies and OpenAI.

Mike Vizard · Oct 20, 2025
AI

Survey Sees Developers Embracing AI Faster than Project Leaders

A survey of 1,129 developers and 50 project managers suggests that individual developers are significantly further ahead when it comes to embracing AI than managers of application development projects. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the application developers surveyed said they are now saving on average 7.3 hours of work per week, […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 17, 2025
AI

Survey Surfaces Widespread Adoption of AI to Improve DevSecOps

A global survey of 1,015 IT professionals with responsibility for application security finds more than three quarters (77%) are using artificial intelligence (AI), with another 13% considering adoption. Conducted by Fastly, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) service, the survey also finds 25% of survey respondents using AI have fully integrated into their […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 15, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore the latest DevOps job openings from leading companies including VSCO, John Deere, Red Hat, BCC Software, and NetApp. DevOps.com’s weekly jobs report highlights high-paying roles and insights into the current DevOps job market.

Mike Vizard · Oct 13, 2025
Blogs

Grafana Labs Extends AI Capabilities of Observability Platform

Grafana Labs this week made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Grafana Assistant, for its namesake dashboard in addition to previewing Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI incident management tool that analyzes the observability stack, generates findings and hypotheses, and surfaces actionable recommendations for mitigation and remediation. Announced at its ObservabilityCON 2025 conference, Grafana […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 10, 2025
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Lots of Room for Software Engineering Improvement

A survey of 600 software engineers and 600 senior technology leaders across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France finds that nearly three quarters of software engineers say demands on their time make it difficult for them to build new features. Conducted by Chainguard, a provider of repositories for accessing secure container images, the […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 8, 2025
AI

Spacelift Adds Open Source AI Vibecoding Tool to Provision Infrastructure

Spacelift today unfurled an open source agentic artificial intelligence (AI) framework for managing infrastructure that eliminates the need for a developer to write any Terraform or OpenTofu code. Marcin Wyszynski, chief research and development officer for Spacelift, said instead of generating code Spacelift Intent translates requests directly into an application programming interface (API) that interacts […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 8, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

A weekly DevOps Jobs Report featuring opportunities, salaries and insights into the DevOps job market from companies like NVIDIA and GEICO.

Mike Vizard · Oct 6, 2025
AI

Shortcut Adds AI Agent to Orchestrate Management of Software Development Projects

Shortcut this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is capable of orchestrating the planning, tracking and coordination of software projects. Company CEO Kurt Schrader said the Korey agent takes ideas described in natural language and converts them into structured, build-ready plans in seconds, including generating detailed specifications with clear acceptance criteria. It then […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 2, 2025