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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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Harness Adds Pair of Tools to Track ROI in AI Coding

Harness today added two tools to track and analyze the impact code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools is having on application development. An AI Development Lifecycle (DLC) tool installs agent software on a developer’s machine to track adoption, sessions, and the code created across every coding agent, while a Cloud & AI Cost […]

Mike Vizard · May 28, 2026
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JFrog Report Surfaces Need for Rapid DevSecOps Change in AI Era

A report published by JFrog finds that cybercriminals are now increasingly targeting the artificial intelligence (AI) tools and platforms used by application development teams. Based on an analysis of 18.2 billion artifacts managed via the JFrog Platform, security researchers discovered 969 AI agent skills carrying high-impact payloads in addition to 495 malicious AI models on […]

Mike Vizard · May 27, 2026
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Sol Duara Readies Open Source Workflow Orchestration Platform for CD Foundation

Sol Duara, a provider of open source platforms for managing the software development lifecycle (SDLC), has announced its intent to contribute an open source orchestration platform for automating software development workflows to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. At the core of the Conduit platform from Sol Duara is CDrus Expressions, a framework that turns CDEvents […]

Mike Vizard · May 26, 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 · May 26, 2026
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OpenTelemetry Achieves CNCF Graduated Project Status

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source OpenTelemetry (OTel) project has officially graduated a little more than seven years after its initial adoption. Announced at the Observability North America Summit, OpenTelemetry was first donated to the CNCF in 2019 following the merger of separate OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects that sought […]

Mike Vizard · May 21, 2026
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CloudBees Survey Surfaces Increase in Production Issues Attributable to AI

A survey of 213 IT leaders, conducted by CloudBees, finds that while 93% report they are seeing productivity gains that are driven by increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, a full 81% also report they have seen an increase in production issues attributable to AI-generated code. Shared this week at an Agentic DevOps World […]

Mike Vizard · May 20, 2026
Video Interviews

OpenTelemetry Graduation Sets Stage for AI Observability

OpenTelemetry just hit graduated status at the CNCF, and the timing matters more than the milestone itself. After years of consolidating what used to be OpenTracing and OpenCensus, the project has quietly become the default way modern applications emit traces, metrics and logs — right as the industry is staring down a new wave of […]

Mike Vizard · May 20, 2026
Video Interviews

Software Weaponization Raises DevSecOps Stakes

The threat model that DevSecOps teams have been working from for the last decade was built around accidental vulnerabilities — mistakes that needed to be found and fixed before someone exploited them. That assumption is breaking. Vulnerabilities are increasingly being treated as strategic assets, stockpiled by nation-states and threat actors and held back from disclosure […]

Mike Vizard · May 20, 2026
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1Password Allies With OpenAI to Secure Codex AI Coding Tool

DevSecOps teams can now manage coding agents as a tenant rather than another vault where secrets might be stored, ensuring credentials are never exposed to an AI agent or LLM as plain text. The MCP server does not read or return secret values through the MCP channel, allowing Codex to create environments and invoke applications while the values themselves never leave the 1Password vault.

Mike Vizard · May 20, 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 · May 18, 2026
AI

Copado Brings AI Agents to DevOps Platform for Building Custom Salesforce Apps

Copado has added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps platform for building and deploying custom applications for the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce. At launch, Copado is making available Agentia AI agents specifically that can be assigned plan, build and testing tasks via an orchestration agent that manages the overall workflow. Each Agentia […]

Mike Vizard · May 14, 2026
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Hacktron Plans to Build AI Platform to Test Code for Vulnerabilities

Hacktron revealed today it is developing a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to continuously test code for vulnerabilities. Fresh off raising $2.9 million in seed capital, Hacktron founder Zayne Zhang said the company’s platform will employ multiple AI models to test every pull request and code change to identify vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable. […]

Mike Vizard · May 13, 2026
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AWS Extends Scope of AI Engines Embedded in Kiro Coding Tool

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today added additional capabilities to its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that promise to further reduce the time and effort needed to build software. Kiro now includes a Parallel Task Execution engine that accelerates application development by eliminating the need to complete a set of tasks sequentially, along with a […]

Mike Vizard · May 12, 2026
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Red Hat Previews AI Agent Integration with Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat today revealed it is extending the reach of its Ansible Automation Platform for IT operations to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, in addition to making it simpler to build AI agents using existing application development tools. Announced at the Red Hat Summit conference, version 2.7 of the Ansible Automation Platform adds a technology preview […]

Mike Vizard · May 12, 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 · May 11, 2026
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Survey Surfaces Significant Levels of IDP Investment to Reduce SDLC Friction

A survey of 954 IT decision-makers suggests more resources are now being allocated to reducing friction across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Conducted by CDW, the survey finds more than two-thirds of respondents (68%) report their organization has adopted an internal developer platform (IDP). The primary goal is to improve operational efficiency (57%), provide better […]

Mike Vizard · May 8, 2026
Video Interviews

The Messy Reality of Vibe Coding

The default reaction to vibe coding has been alarm — a default assumption that letting AI write large chunks of an application is going to flood production with vulnerabilities and undocumented behavior. That fear is doing as much damage as the bad code people are afraid of. Teams that freeze, ban the tools or push […]

Mike Vizard · May 7, 2026
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Survey Sees AI Driving DevOps Productivity Gains Despite Challenges

A global survey of 636 software development professionals published today finds nearly two-thirds (64%) believe they are achieving at least a 25% increase in developer velocity and productivity using artificial intelligence (AI). Conducted by Jellyfish, a provider of a software engineering intelligence platform, just under a quarter (24%) report there has been a 50% to […]

Mike Vizard · May 7, 2026
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IREN to Acquire Mirantis to Reduce IT Infrastructure Management Friction

IREN Ltd, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, today revealed its intent to acquire Mirantis, a provider of open source OpenStack and Kubernetes software that is deployed in both cloud computing and on-premises IT environments. Under terms of the agreement valued at $625 million, Mirantis will operate as an independent subsidiary of IREN, a former […]

Mike Vizard · May 5, 2026
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Incredibuild Unveils Islo Sandbox to Isolate AI Coding Agents

Incredibuild this week developed a sandbox, dubbed Islo, that makes it possible to safely run artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents. Company CEO Shimon Hason said Islo provides an isolated execution environment that enables DevOps teams to limit access to sensitive data, codebases, resources and services. Each AI coding agent is then provided with its own […]

Mike Vizard · May 5, 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 · May 4, 2026
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Arm Adds Free Toolkit to Analyze AI Agent Performance

Arm this week made available a free toolkit for analyzing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads as they are being developed by DevOps and platform engineering teams. Earlier this year, Arm unveiled a 3nm processor based on its Neoverse V3 architecture that is specifically designed for AI workloads. The Arm Performix toolkit provides system-wide analysis across […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 30, 2026