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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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Eclipse Foundation Extends Scope and Reach of Open VSX Registry

The Eclipse Foundation launches a new framework for the Open VSX Registry, enhancing security features and transitioning to a hybrid architecture. With support from AI tool provider Cursor, this initiative aims to promote safer software supply chains.

Mike Vizard · Mar 3, 2026
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ControlMonkey Extends IaC Automation Reach to Restore Network Services

ControlMonkey has extended its platform for automating infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to add an ability to reprovision network services following a disruption in service. Company CEO Aharon Twizer said this extension to the Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery platform, which the company launched last year, makes it possible to use Terraform code to programmatically reconfigure networking services among others […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 2, 2026
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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 · Mar 2, 2026
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Harness Readies Resilience Testing Platform to Make Applications More Robust

Harness today revealed that it will make available a set of open source tools for testing the resiliency of applications that are based on a chaos engineering platform the company gained with the acquisition of LitmusChaos. The Harness Resilience Testing platform extends the scope of the tests provided to include application load and disaster recovery […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 27, 2026
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Malicious NPM Package Gets Downloaded 50K Times Before Discovery

A malicious package downloaded approximately 50,000 times from a node package manager (npm) is providing an object lesson for adopting more DevSecOps best practices. Security researchers from Tenable discovered a “ambar-src” package that was first published Feb. 13 and then updated again before being discovered. It is aimed at developers building JavaScript applications on Windows, […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 26, 2026
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Arm Aims to Foster Software Engineering Ecosystem

A CoreCollective initiative was launched today, encouraging software developers that build tools and applications that run on Arm processors to work more collaboratively. Created by Arm in collaboration with Linaro, a provider of software engineering services, the CoreCollective ecosystem includes Ampere, Canonical, CIX Technology, Fujitsu, Google, Graphcore, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Samsung and SUSE. Andy […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 25, 2026
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OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse

Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply and creator of Apache Druid, explains how the rapid adoption of open source OpenTelemetry for instrumenting applications is reshaping modern observability architectures. As telemetry data volumes surge, organizations are moving toward an “observability warehouse” model that unifies logs, metrics and traces into a scalable analytics foundation capable of delivering […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 25, 2026
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AWS Extends Agentic AI Capabilities of Kiro Developer Tool to Improve Code Quality

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added two additional capabilities to its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that promise to make it simpler to both create higher quality software in the first place and fix any bugs that might have inadvertently been included. At the core of that capability is a specifications-based approach to enabling […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 24, 2026
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Harness Makes Registry for Integrating Artifacts into DevOps Workflows Available

Harness today made generally available an Artifact Registry it has added to its portfolio of DevOps tools and platforms. At the same time, Harness also revealed it has added a Dependency Firewall to the registry that enables DevSecOps teams to enforce controls at the point of ingestion. Rather than relying on downstream scans after a […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 24, 2026
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Browse our weekly DevOps jobs report highlighting high-paying DevOps roles from leading companies including Pax8, JPMorgan Chase, Major League Baseball and more. Explore current opportunities and insights into the DevOps job market.

Mike Vizard · Feb 23, 2026
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Checkmarx Extends Vulnerability Detection to AI Coding Tool from AWS

Checkmarx this week revealed it has added support for the Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its Checkmarx Developer Assist that leverages AI to surface vulnerabilities before code is committed. The Checkmarx IDE extension for Kiro is designed to be activated from within the Developer Assist tab that […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 18, 2026
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore the latest DevOps jobs from top companies like Wells Fargo, Workday Inc., and HarbourVest with competitive salaries across various locations.

Mike Vizard · Feb 16, 2026
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Arcjet SDKs Make It Simpler for Developers to Include Security Functions

Arcjet this week made available a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simpler for JavaScript developers to embed capabilities such as bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection and data redaction directly within their applications. Company CEO David Mytton said the release of v1.0 of its Arcjet JavaScript SDK makes it possible for […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 12, 2026
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CodeHunter API Integrates Deterministic AI Models into DevSecOps Workflows

CodeHunter, a provider of behavioral malware analysis and threat intelligence tools, today announced it is making available an application programming interface (API) to make it simpler to embed the capabilities it provides within a DevSecOps workflow. At its core, CodeHunter makes use of a set of deterministic AI models that it has developed to analyze […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 11, 2026
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How AI Helps Teams Track Dependencies and Reduce Delivery Risk

AI is showing up everywhere in software delivery, but project management is where a lot of the real friction lives. Newly appointed Planview CEO Matt Zilli talks through why planning and delivery still break down inside modern organizations, even when teams have more data and more tools than ever. Zilli’s point is simple: the problem […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 11, 2026
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Rein Security Emerges to Analyze Reachability of Application Vulnerabilities

Rein Security has emerged from stealth to launch an application security platform capable of determining the reach of a vulnerability based on which libraries and application programming interfaces are actually running in a production environment. Fresh off raising $8 million in seed funding. Rein Security CEO Matan Bar Efrat said DevSecOps teams can now gain […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 11, 2026
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CodeRabbit Adds DevOps Planning and Review Tool for AI Prompts

CodeRabbit today made available in beta a planning tool that enables DevOps teams to determine which artificial intelligence (AI) prompts to create and review before embedding them within their workflows. David Loker, vice president of AI for CodeRabbit, said CodeRabbit Issue Planner will enable DevOps teams to collaboratively apply AI to workflows versus relying on […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 10, 2026
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Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt

A global survey of 2,039 Java developers published today finds 63% reporting that dead and unused code adversely affects their team’s productivity, with 22% describing the impact of that technical debt as being severe. Conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Azul, a provider of a distribution of OpenJDK, the survey also finds that more […]

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

This week’s report features top employers including Capital One, Google, CLS US Services, Thrive Market, and Cisco Systems, providing insights into the job market and salaries for crucial roles in DevOps.

Mike Vizard · Feb 9, 2026
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Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts

Veracode has extended the reach of a Package Firewall that applies policies that limit what types of code can be downloaded from a repository to Azure Artifacts from Microsoft. Additionally, DevSecOps teams can now define custom policies based on package risk profiles, vulnerability thresholds, or a specific security requirement their organization has adopted. Tim Jarrett, […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2026
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How AI Is Expanding Who Gets to Build Infrastructure

Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, unpacks what’s changing in platform engineering as AI reshapes who gets to build, and how infrastructure actually gets managed. Baron traces the origin story back to his time building high-scale systems at Instana (which exited to IBM in 2020), where the reality of “always-on” platforms made […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2026
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Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform

Qodo 2.0 adds memory-enabled, task-specific AI agents to its LLM-based code-review platform, improving defect recall and F1 performance to help DevOps scale code quality as AI-generated code rises.

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2026