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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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Video Interviews

Is Generative AI Replacing Junior Developers?

Generative AI tools aren’t just autocomplete for code—they’re reshaping the very first rung on the engineering career ladder. Host Mike Vizard asks Juan Salinas, VP of business development at Jalasoft, and software engineer Rolando Lora whether entry‑level developer jobs are about to disappear. Salinas is blunt: the routine, low‑risk tickets that once taught newcomers the ropes […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 18, 2025
Blogs

Centreon Extends Monitoring Reach into Observability Realm

Centreon this week generally made available an open source agent for monitoring IT and operational technology (OT) environments that incorporates the open source OpenTelemetry agent for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Raphaël Chauvel, chief product officer at Centreon, said now that the Centreon Monitoring […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 17, 2025
AI

Perforce Adds Autonomous AI Agent to Test Mobile Apps

Perforce Software today added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that autonomously adapts tests it has created as changes are made to mobile computing applications. Don Jackson, technical evangelist for Perforce, said via a natural language interface it’s now possible for DevOps teams to leverage an AI model that Perforce developed to generate tests using a […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 15, 2025
Video Interviews

Scaling DevOps: Tackling Infrastructure Automation

Spacelift CEO Pawel Hytry dives into the infrastructure automation challenges DevOps teams are facing following the picking up of an additional $51 million in financing. Infrastructure-as‑code was supposed to make provisioning easy—copy some Terraform, hit “apply,” and move on. In practice, teams soon discover that version‑controlled snippets are only half the story. Once dozens of […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 15, 2025
Blogs

Harness Adds Templates to Platform for Managing Infrastructure as Code

Harness today updated its platform for managing infrastructure as code to add a set of templates for predefining essential variables, configuration settings, and policies, along with a module registry that makes it possible to more easily share those templates. Uri Scheiner, senior vice president and general manager for Harness, said the latest edition of Harness […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 15, 2025
AI

AWS Previews AI IDE to Accelerate Software Development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed an internal developer environment (IDE) infused with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that promises to make it simpler for application developers to invoke multiple agents.

Mike Vizard · Jul 14, 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 · Jul 14, 2025
AI

Deepgram Enables Developers to Issue Voice Commands to DevOps Tools

Deepgram has developed a framework that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enable developers to automate multiple tasks using a single voice command. Natalie Rutgers, vice president of product for Deepgram, said Deepgram Saga is essentially a voice operating system that can be layered on top of existing tools and platform that converts natural speech […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 10, 2025
Blogs

Red Hat Woos Corporate Developers with Free Instances of RHEL

Red Hat today launched an initiative intended to make a free distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) available to individual developers working within a corporate environment. Chris Wells, senior director of product marketing for RHEL, said the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers program will reduce the level of friction that developers of […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 9, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Find your next DevOps job opportunity in our weekly round-up of the latest advertised roles. This week includes jobs at TCG, Inc. and Gallup.

Mike Vizard · Jul 7, 2025
Blogs

Bitrise to Invest $3M in DevOps Cloud for Mobile Apps in EU

Bitrise, a provider of a DevOps platform for building mobile applications, plans to invest $3 million to create data centers in the European Union (EU) that meet sovereign cloud requirements. Company CEO Barnabás Birmacher said Bitrise has spent much of the past year integrating its stack and consolidating the infrastructure it needs to support its […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 2, 2025
Blogs

Survey: Pace of Increased Adoption of GitOps Varies Widely

A survey of 660 software development professionals finds 93% have embraced GitOps as a methodology for building and deploying software, with 68% planning to increase usage. Conducted by Octopus Deploy, a provider of an automation platform for releasing software, the survey finds another quarter (25%) plan to retain their current usage compared to 7% that […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 30, 2025
AI

Kusari Adds AI Security Tool to Inspect Code as Pull Requests Are Made

Kusari has added an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that runs a security risk assessment every time an application developer makes a pull request. Company CTO Mike Lieberman said Kusari Inspector is designed to make it simpler for security to be shifted left toward application developers in a way that doesn’t impinge productivity. Most application developers […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 30, 2025
Video Interviews

Fast Code, Real Risks: Guardrails for AI-Generated Software

Yonatan Arbel, developer advocate in the Office of the CTO at JFrog, dives into the potential risks and rewards of relying on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to build and deploy software. Yes, more code is shipping faster than ever, Arbel admits, but volume alone isn’t a win—each hastily synthesized line must still survive build servers, […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 30, 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 · Jun 30, 2025
Blogs

Spacelift Adds On-Premises Edition of Infrastructure Management Platform

Spacelift has made available an on-premises edition of a platform for automating the provisioning and management of IT infrastructure that previously was only accessible via a software-as-a-service application. Company CEO Pawel Hytry said the on-premises edition of the platform satisfies both the requirements of highly regulated industries and the emergence of sovereign cloud requirements that […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 27, 2025
AI

Secure Code Warrior Defines Security Rules for AI Coding

Secure Code Warrior has made available a set of security rules for application developers using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate code. Company CTO Matias Madou said the AI Security Rules made available on GitHub are intended to encourage developers to review code generated by AI for security issues that these tools may inadvertently introduce. […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 26, 2025
Blogs

Chronosphere Streamlines Management of Log Data to Reduce Costs

Chronosphere today added additional capabilities to its log management platform that enable DevOps teams to both reduce costs and surface more actionable insights. Alok Bhide, head of product innovation for Chronosphere, said Chronosphere Logs 2.0 provides DevOps teams with more granular control over how log data is collected and stored. The overall goal is to […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 24, 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 · Jun 23, 2025
AI

AWS Extends MCP Support in Amazon Q Developer to Multiple IDEs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the Visual Studio Code and JetBrains plugins that are provided for Amazon Q Developer, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate a range of software development tasks.

Mike Vizard · Jun 19, 2025
AI

Atlassian Adds CLI Option to AI Agent for Building Software

Atlassian has added a command line interface (CLI) option to provide application developers with a familiar construct for invoking Rovo Dev, its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for building software Part of a portfolio of Rovo Software Agents that Atlassian now makes available in beta, Rovo Dev completes and debugs code, creates tests, surfaces insights and […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 18, 2025