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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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Blogs

Ten 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 27, 2026
AI

Black Duck Extends Scope and Reach of Code Scanning Tool

Black Duck has updated its Coverity static analysis code scanning tool to provide deeper integrations with artificial intelligence (AI) tools along with updates to its user interface that make it simpler to prioritize issues in a way that makes it easier to adhere to multiple compliance mandates. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server added to […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 24, 2026
AI

Harness Extends DevOps Reach to the Realm of AI Agents

Harness today extended the reach of its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to enable DevOps teams to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. At the core of that capability are five additions to the Harness portfolio, including an AI Asset Catalog that automatically discovers every agent, skill, and plugin that exists within repositories […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 21, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 20, 2026
AI

SmartBear Tightens Integration Between AI Coding and Testing Tools

SmartBear this week revealed it is narrowing the divide between coding and testing by integrating its platform with artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Sheryl Koenigsberg, senior vice president of product marketing at SmartBear, said integrations with AI coding tools from Anthropic, Atlassian, GitHub, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will make it simpler for application developers […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 16, 2026
AI

Atlassian Extends AI Reach of Jira Into Agentic Engineering Workflows

Atlassian today extended the scope of tasks that artificial intelligence (AI) can automate directly from its Jira project management software, including assigning work to an AI coding agent. Initially, Jira integration with AI coding tools includes Claude Code from Anthropic, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, with support for Codex from OpenAI forthcoming. Software engineering teams can […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 15, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 13, 2026
Blogs

IBM and Red Hat Launch Lightwell Catalog to Automate Remediation

IBM and Red Hat this week revealed that Lightwell Network, a catalog of more than 6,500 application-layer dependencies that drives an automated vulnerability remediation service, is now generally available. At the same time, the Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier service, through which application development teams can both access validated patches and coordinate remediation efforts, is now available […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 9, 2026
AI

Block Details Builderbot Framework for Orchestrating AI Agents Across SDLC

The software engineers at Block have developed an orchestration layer they are using to manage artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to automate multiple tasks across their software development lifecycle (SDLC). Based on goose, an open source agent framework the company developed and contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Builderbot orchestration […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 7, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 6, 2026
AI

Lightrun Adds Ability to Assess Impact Pull Request Will Have in Production

Lightrun is providing early access to an ability to verify whether a pull request (PR) will actually run in a production environment as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for automating site reliability engineering (SRE) workflows. Company CTO Leonid Blouvshtein said the Runtime Aware PR Verifier enables DevOps teams to assess the impact a […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 2, 2026
AI

Harness Adds Autonomous AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows

Harness today is providing DevOps teams with an ability to build and deploy autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate the delivery of code to production environments. Trevor Stuart, a senior vice president and general manager at Harness, said the Autonomous Worker Agents eliminate the need for fixed scripts with custom AI agents or ones […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 30, 2026
AI

Survey: More AI Code Running in Production Environments with Caveats

A global survey of 309 software engineering leaders, published today, finds 81% of organizations have to some degree reworked development and release processes to accommodate code generated using artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. However, only 45% said their organization is running any of that code in production environments. Conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 30, 2026
AI

Survey Surfaces Rise in IT Incidents Attributable to AI Coding Tools

A survey of 406 IT decision makers at organizations with more than 250 employees in North America finds 93% have experienced at least one infrastructure incident caused by reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) tooling. Conducted by Panterra Group on behalf of Spacelift, a provider of a platform for automating the management of infrastructure-as-code (IaC), the […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 29, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 29, 2026
Video Interviews

AI Coding Agents Are Pulling CI Feedback Into the Inner Loop

The traditional shape of CI/CD assumed humans worked in the inner loop and pipelines policed the outer one. AI coding agents are tearing that geometry apart. When code can be generated in seconds, waiting until a pull request to run validation, tests, code review and standards checks turns the outer loop into a backlog of […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 26, 2026
AI

Qodo Extends Reach and Scope of AI Code Review Platform

Qodo this week extended its platform for managing code quality and governance to enable an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to review code spanning multiple repositories. Additionally, version 2.8 of the Qodo platform adds a custom rules miner that discovers coding patterns from existing codebase behavior and pull request (PR) history that are then used to […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 25, 2026
Blogs

HeroDevs Allies with Commonhaus Foundation to Support Open Source Software

HeroDevs this week revealed it has joined the Commonhaus Foundation as the founding member of the Open Source Sustainability Initiative (OSSI) after establishing partnerships with the open source Hibernate, Jackson, and Quarkus communities to provide commercial support for older versions of these frameworks. OSSI is a framework administered by the Commonhaus Foundation through which governance […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 24, 2026
AI

Undo Enables AI Agents to Diagnose Root Cause of Application Issues

Undo today revealed that its platform for recording interactions within applications can now be accessed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Company CEO Greg Law said this Undo AI capability makes it simpler for any agent to discover the root cause of any issue that otherwise would have required […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 24, 2026
AI

Newly Appointed CloudBees CEO Charts Agentic AI Engineering Course

The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that moves beyond human-centric tooling. Plassnig, who earlier this month succeeded Anuj Kapur, joins CloudBees from Immuta, a provider of a data security and governance platform, […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 23, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 22, 2026
AI

AWS Previews iOS App to Manage Kiro AI Coding Workflows

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made available, via an early access program, an iOS application through which application developers can start sessions and approve changes made by the Kiro AI coding tool the cloud service provider created. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the iOS application provides all the management capabilities provided by […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 18, 2026
AI

Autonomous AWS Agent Automates Modernization of Codebases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that has been trained to continuously modernize codebases. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the AI agent is being embedded into AWS Transform, the application modernization service AWS launched last year. Sriram Devanathan, director of AWS Transform, said the […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 17, 2026