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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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Lightrun Adds Ability to Dynamically Pull Telemetry Data from Live Apps

Lightrun has added an ability to dynamically pull missing telemetry evidence from live application environments without having to deploy additional instrumentation to its namesake site reliability engineering (SRE) platform that is based on artificial intelligence (AI). Company CEO Ilan Peleg said the Lightrun AI SRE platform includes a sandbox deployed via a software development kit […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 30, 2026
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore this week’s top DevOps career opportunities featuring roles at SAP, Maximus, Inc., and Bellota Labs. Salaries range from $115k to $337k for senior and lead positions.

Mike Vizard · Mar 30, 2026
AI

Sysdig Adds Runtime to Secure AI Coding Agents

Sysdig this week at the RSA Conference (RSAC) revealed it has created a runtime that makes it possible to securely deploy artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Jonas Rosland, director of the open source program for Sysdig, said the runtime makes it possible to monitor the activity of AI coding agents in real time, including potential […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 26, 2026
Blogs

Akuity Adds Ability to Customize Kargo Pipelines

Akuity this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference revealed it has added an ability to customize the steps used to promote applications into a production environment using a Kargo orchestration engine it developed to manage software using a GitOps workflow. Company CEO Hong Wang said the Custom Steps capability added to Kargo will […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 25, 2026
Blogs

LocalStack Revamps CLI for Emulating AWS Cloud Services on Local Machines

LocalStack at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference this week unveiled a revamped command line interface (CLI), dubbed 1stk, for its framework that enables emulations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to be run on a local machine. The CLI in version 3 of the AWS 2026 edition of the framework, in addition to providing […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 24, 2026
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PagerDuty Extends Scope and Reach of AI SRE Platform

PagerDuty has extended the capabilities and reach of its artificial intelligence (AI) agents to enable them to be invoked directly from within the Slack messaging platform. Additionally, the AI SRE Agent that is embedded within the PagerDuty Operations Cloud platform can now also leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and an expanded library of application […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 23, 2026
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Cloudsmith Brings Threat Intelligence to Software Artifacts

Cloudsmith this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference revealed it has added an ability to enrich packages with threat intelligence that enables DevSecOps teams to better evaluate the risk attached to downloading a software component. Nigel Douglas, head of developer relations for Cloudsmith, said this extension to the managed service it provides for […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 23, 2026
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore the latest DevOps.com weekly jobs report. Highlighting premier opportunities at Bank of America, Microsoft, and GEICO, with salary insights up to $300,000 for senior engineering and platform leadership roles.

Mike Vizard · Mar 23, 2026
Blogs

Secure Code Warrior AI Agent Applies Policies to AI Generated Code

Secure Code Warrior (SCW) this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that both identifies code generated by an AI coding tool and automatically applies the appropriate governance policies. Company CEO Pieter Danhieux said the SCW Trust Agent makes it possible for DevSecOps teams to use AI to verify which AI models influenced specific commits, […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 19, 2026
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Lineaje Adds Ability to Automatically Apply Governance Policies to AI Components

Lineaje this week unfurled a platform that automatically discovers the artificial intelligence components of an application, defines security and governance policies, and then autonomously generates guardrails. At the core of the Lineaje UnifAI platform are a set of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are integrated with an orchestration framework for applying governance policies that has […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 19, 2026
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Checkmarx Adds Orchestration Framework to DevSecOps Platform

Checkmarx this week revamped its DevSecOps platform to include an orchestration framework for managing tasks assigned to artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Additionally, the company has added two additional artificial intelligence (AI) agents trained to triage vulnerabilities and remediate them using code it generates for review while at the same time adding an ability to discover […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 19, 2026
Blogs

Arcjet Extends Runtime Policy Engine to Block Malicious Prompts

Arcjet today added an ability to detect and block risky prompts before they are shared with a large language model (LLM) embedded within an application. The Arcjet AI prompt injection protection capability is based on an LLM that the company has been specifically training to detect patterns indicative of risky prompts that can then be […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 18, 2026
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Komodor Extends Reach of AI SRE Orchestration Framework

Komodor today extended the reach of its orchestration framework for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and the OpenAPI specification. Company CTO Itiel Shwartz said those capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to more broadly orchestrate AI agents that are being used to investigate and remediate […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 18, 2026
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Harness Extends AI Security Reach Across Entire DevOps Workflow

Harness today added an ability to automatically secure code as it is being written by an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool in addition to adding a module to its DevOps platform that discovers, tests, and protects AI components within applications. Secure AI Coding is an extension of the static application security testing (SAST) and software […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 17, 2026
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Sauce Labs Makes AI Agent for Creating and Running Tests Available

Sauce Labs today made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that translates a natural language intent into a set of executable test suites that can run anywhere. Company CEO Dr. Prince Kohli said the Sauce AI for Test Authoring agent closes a gap that has emerged between the rate at which code is being […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 17, 2026
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Weekly DevOps jobs roundup, this week highlighting top roles in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Chicago, Charlotte and Seattle, with pay ranges and hiring trends to help DevOps pros advance careers.

Mike Vizard · Mar 16, 2026
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Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

A global survey of 700 software engineering practices published this week finds that thanks to increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, well over a third (35%) are either achieving daily or more frequent product deployments, with 36% deploying software multiple times per week. However, more than half (51%) also noted AI-generated code leads […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 13, 2026
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Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI

An analysis of 2,000 organizations worldwide finds that historically lower performing software engineering teams are seeing nearly a 50% improvement in lead time to delivery, a four times greater rate of improvement over higher performing teams that have adopted AI coding tools. Conducted by Plandek, a provider of a developer productivity intelligence platform, the report […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 10, 2026
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Latest DevOps Jobs report highlights opportunities at Lenovo, IBM, Yale and Weights & Measures. Find out more here.

Mike Vizard · Mar 9, 2026
Video Interviews

Why AI-Generated Code Is Raising the Stakes for Secrets Management

Following a $50 million funding round, GitGuardian CEO Eric Fourrier discusses why secrets security is becoming a much bigger problem in the age of AI-generated code and autonomous agents. As more organizations rush to deploy coding assistants and AI agents, Fourrier argues that the number of exposed credentials, API keys and tokens is rising just […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 6, 2026
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Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

A global survey of 820 IT decision makers and DevOps practitioners finds that half of respondents (53%) report that developers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) are now authoring more tests directly. Conducted by Perforce, that shift also appears to be enabling a similar percentage of organizations (55%) to provide quality assurance (QA) teams […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 5, 2026
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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

Codenotary is previewing a software-as–a-service (SaaS) platform that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents it has developed to autonomously detect, prioritize, and fix security, configuration, and performance issues. Company CEO Moshe Bar said the Codenotary Trust platform also enables continuous vulnerability tracking at both the Linux operating system and application level. Once an issue is detected, […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 4, 2026
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Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI

Sonar this week launched an Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) framework that promises to modernize continuous integration (CI) in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) coding. Announced at an online Sonar Summit, the AC/DC framework incorporates multiple tools and platforms the company has developed to better secure software supply chains, including now in beta Sonar […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 4, 2026