
Google Adds App Modernization Tools to Generative AI Platform
Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.

Apica Acquires LOGIQ.AI to Unify Observability
Apica has just raised an additional $10 million in funding and has agreed to acquire LOGIQ.AI.

IBM Previews Generative AI Tool for Converting COBOL to Java
IBM this week announced it will preview a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for converting COBOL code running on mainframes into Java. The preview will be available next month during IBM’s TechXchange learning event, IBM said. Kyle Charlet, CTO for Z software at IBM, said watsonx Code Assistant for Z makes use of large language […]

VMware Previews Spring AI to Accelerate Java Development
VMware’s Spring AI project makes it simpler to build Java apps that invoke multiple AI components with minimal changes to code.

New Relic Extends AI to Identify Alert Coverage Gaps
New Relic added additional AI capabilities to its observability platform to detect and resolve alert coverage gaps.

IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.

VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows
VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.

Low-Code and AI: Friends or Foes?
Does the rise of large language models (LLMs) represent an existential threat to the status quo of low-code development?

How Multiple Forms of AI Will Transform DevOps for the Better
Multiple classes of AI are converging to automate DevOps workflows, which will accelerate the rate at which higher-quality apps are built and deployed.

Teleport Assist Leverages Generative AI to Democratize DevOps
Teleport Assist makes use of OpenAI’s generative AI APIs to enable DevOps teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues more easily.

Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to production.”

Datadog Adds Additional Generative AI Capabilities to Platform
Datadog Bits uses generative AI to provide real-time recommendations to resolve issues surfaced by the company’s observability platform.

Agile Planning With Generative AI
Generative AI will eventually impact the entire DevOps life cycle from plan to operate. I started as a developer but have been a product manager for most of my career; for me, the ‘Holy Grail of DevOps’ would be one where product managers (PMs) and business analysts (BAs) were able to define a future state […]

Digital.ai Embraces Multiple AI Classes to Advance DevSecOps
Digital.ai has committed to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and additional machine learning capabilities to its namesake platform for managing DevSecOps workflows.

Snyk Survey: AI Generating More Vulnerabilities in Code
A Snyk survey finds the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write code is creating a software security paradox.

Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.

Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers
Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital. […]

Dynatrace Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Davis Engine
Dynatrace added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the Davis engine it uses to apply machine learning algorithms to its observability platform.

AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.

Webb.ai Launches AI-Based Continuous Root Cause Analysis
Webb.ai opened an early access program for a Continuous Automated Root Cause Analysis platform that uses AI combined with a knowledge graph to dynamically keep track of and analyze changes to IT environments.

Splunk Goes Azure With Microsoft Partnership
Splunk announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build solutions natively on Azure. Mitch Ashley is live at the .conf event.

Splunk Adds Generative AI Tool and OpenTelemetry Collector
Splunk added an assistant that leverages generative AI capabilities to enable IT teams to use natural language to invoke the Splunk Processing Language (SPL).

State of API Report Highlights Productization and Generative AI
Postman’s fifth annual State of the API report sheds light on the ongoing API productization movement and API developers’ use of generative AI.
