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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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AWS Previews Release Management Capabilities Added to DevOps Agent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed a release management capability for the artificial intelligence (AI) agent it developed to automate DevOps workflows. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the latest release of the AWS DevOps Agent makes available in preview an updated version of the AWS DevOps Agent that can now review and test […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 17, 2026
Blogs

Checkmarx Adds Hybrid SAST Engine to Improve AppSec in AI Era

Checkmarx this week revealed it has re-engineered the core engines embedded within its static application security testing (SAST) tools for the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era. At the core of that effort is a next-generation SAST hybrid scanning engine that combines three distinct capabilities within the Checkmarx One platform. An existing deterministic rules-based foundation is […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 16, 2026
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New Relic Adds Open Source Tool to Observe AI Coding

New Relic has made available an open source extension to its observability platform for coding tools at no additional cost. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said the New Relic AI Coding Observability capability will make it simpler for DevOps teams to centrally monitor usage of a diverse range of artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 15, 2026
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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 15, 2026
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Survey Surfaces Depth of DevSecOps Crisis in the Age of AI

A global survey of 2,350 developers, CISOs and application security managers published this week finds that while nearly all respondents (96%) work for organizations that have embedded or connected artificial intelligence (AI) code and tools into some aspect of their application development workflows, nearly half of all code (49%) running in production environments was AI-generated […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 12, 2026
Video Interviews

CDEvents Simplifies AI-Ready Developer Platforms

Internal developer platforms have become a tangled web of orchestration tools, CI runners and deployment systems that rarely speak the same language. Every new integration adds another translation layer, and as AI-driven automation starts to plug into those pipelines, the lack of a shared vocabulary for what is actually happening across the software delivery lifecycle […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 2026
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Datadog Leverages AI to Extend Observability Reach Deeper into DevOps Workflows

Datadog this week significantly extended the reach of its Bits artificial intelligence (AI) framework to enable DevOps teams to automatically discover and resolve issues based on the telemetry data collected by its observability platform. Announced at the company’s DASH 2026 conference, Datadog is now embedding an AI coding tool, dubbed Bits Code, across its entire […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 2026
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AWS Unfurls Open Source AI Agent to Enable Better AI Coding Outcomes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed a customizable lightweight, open-source harness, dubbed Simple Strands Agent (SSA), that looks to provide a more consistent approach to the interactions that occur between artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Anoop Deoras, director of applied science for agentic AI at AWS, said one of the issues that has arisen in […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 8, 2026
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Kilo Adds Benchmark to Identify Most Efficient AI Models for Coding

Kilo today made available a benchmarking framework for its open source artificial intelligence (AI) agent that enables application development teams to generate code using multiple models. Company CEO Scott Breitenother said KiloBench measures the impact that frontier AI models are having on actual production workflows versus relying on a set of benchmarks, such as SWE-bench […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 8, 2026
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Broadcom Aims to Better Secure Spring Applications in the AI Era

Broadcom today released a raft of updates to the open source Spring framework for building Java applications to primarily address a wave of vulnerabilities discovered by researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. At the same time, Broadcom is also adding a managed service through which organizations can secure thousands of Spring dependencies for organizations building […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 8, 2026
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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 8, 2026
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Secure Code Warrior Leverages AI to Extend DevSecOps Training Reach

Secure Code Warrior this week extended the capability of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent to make it possible to surface relevant training insights in real time as application developers are writing code. Announced at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, the Adaptive Learning capability added to the company’s learning platform detects which AI tools […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 5, 2026
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Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Advance Open Source Vite Ecosystem

Cloudflare this week acquired VoidZero, the maintainer of open source tools such as Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ that are used widely to build web application frameworks. Rita Kozlov, vice president of product management for Cloudflare, said this acquisition will ensure the financial stability of a set of open source tools that play a […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 5, 2026
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Allstacks Extends Reach of Software Engineering Intelligence Platform to AI Agents

Allstacks this week added a shared workspace capability to its software engineering intelligence platform that makes it simpler for product and software engineering teams to create specifications for artificial intelligence (AI) agents that organizations plan to develop and deploy. Product Studio provides teams with a place to plan, draft, and refine product requirements using the […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 4, 2026
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SmartBear Adds Computer Vision Capability to Testing Platform

SmartBear this week extended its ability to apply artificial intelligence to application testing with the addition of a computer vision capability that can be used to detect objects in applications. Prashant Mohan, vice president of product at SmartBear, said the company’s TestComplete platform now combines computer vision and optical character recognition to help automate the […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 4, 2026
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Harness Acquires Codecov to Identify Untested Code

Harness this week acquired Codecov, a provider of a platform that analyzes the percentage of a codebase that has been tested, from Sentry. Brad Rydzewski, a senior vice president and general manager for Harness, said Codecov makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track testing coverage at a time when the volume of code being […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 3, 2026
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Latest OpenTofu Release Simplifies Configuration Updates

The latest update to the OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool is making it simpler to update and refactor configurations without having to rework the entire codebase. Version 1.12.0 of OpenTofu has added a destroy = false lifecycle option that enables DevOps engineers to drop an object from state without issuing a destroy application programming interface (API) […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 3, 2026
Video Interviews

Why the Trust Layer Is the Next Thing Developers Will Commodify

Engineering roadmaps inside enterprises that never planned to build AI products are now being eaten by AI work. Teams at hospitals, banks and government agencies are spending huge chunks of their sprint capacity wiring up models, UI components and accessibility plumbing for AI features that aren’t core to what their business actually does. The mismatch […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 3, 2026
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Postman Adds AI Agent to Automate API Development and Governance

Postman added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its portfolio of tools and platforms for building and governing application programming interfaces (APIs) that can autonomously perform tasks ranging from development and documentation to exploration and setting up integrations with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) environments. Company CEO Abhinav Asthana said the AI Engineer significantly reduces the […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 2, 2026
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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 1, 2026