Apica Adds AI Agents and MCP Server to Platform for Managing Telemetry Data
Apica today added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to version 3.0 of its Ascent platform for managing telemetry data pipelines. Andi Mann, chief product and technology officer for Apica, said the AI agent, dubbed Venn, makes it possible for IT teams to use natural language rather than having to […]
Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility
Observability startup Dash0 announced this week that it acquired Berlin-based continuous profiling specialist Polar Signals. The deal adds continuous profiling to SignalStore, Dash0’s OpenTelemetry-native data platform. Continuous profiling has been part of the developer toolbox for years and provides teams with an ongoing view of where running applications spend CPU time, allocate memory and consume […]
Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data
Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]
Why Agent Skills Are the Next Evolution of Software Development
The emergence of agent skills — modular, reusable blocks of natural language instructions and metadata — is transforming the developer’s role.
AI in Production Has a Governance Problem — ISO/IEC 42001 is Starting to Solve It
Moving fast without losing control is the core promise of DevOps. Extending this discipline to AI is the next logical step, supported by existing frameworks.
Why AI Makes Requirements a Runtime Artifact
In traditional software, requirements are static design-time artifacts. In AI-enabled systems, they must be continuously observed and enforced in production. Learn how AI collapses the boundary between design-time and runtime, shifting requirements toward behavioral constraints, continuous verification, and shared ownership across engineering and operations
Beyond Test Case Generation: How to Create Intelligent Quality Ecosystems
Move GenAI in QA from test‑factory to life‑cycle intelligence: AI proposes coverage and data, humans review, deterministic automation executes—focus on risk‑aligned coverage, drift detection, and governance.
When Systems Work But No One Wakes Up: The Failure Between Monitoring and Human Response
At 2:07 a.m., a core production node went down. CPU usage spiked, latency ballooned and requests started timing out across the cluster. Monitoring tools caught it instantly as dashboards glowed red, alert rules fired and incident payloads were dutifully sent downstream. Everything functioned exactly as designed. Except no one responded. The alert reached every configured […]
Why Your SLO Dashboard is Lying: Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics in Production
Discover how redefining service level objectives (SLOs) around business impact — not vanity uptime metrics — reduced incidents by 75% and saved $2.3M in lost revenue.
5 Pillars of Successful Web App Development
Today, building a high-quality and competitive web application requires more than just clean code, a user-friendly UX and good development practices. The success of such a project also hinges on creating a strategic approach and prioritizing components that bring long-term value to both your business and your customer. The following five aspects — security, performance, user-centricity, scalability and cross-platform compatibility — define an efficient, future-proof app that […]
How AIOps is Revolutionizing DevOps Monitoring in the Cloud Era
As cloud-native systems grow more complex, traditional monitoring falls short. AIOps brings AI, automation, and predictive insights to DevOps—enabling real-time detection, diagnosis, and resolution across distributed environments for faster, smarter operations.
End-to-End Visibility: The Role of Observability in Frontend and Backend Systems
Have disappointing slowdowns, elusive bugs, and misleading outages ever affected your digital system, even when traditional monitoring shows “all green”? Today’s users demand spontaneous experiences, but DevOps, SRE and software teams often struggle with limited visibility in giant front-end and back-end systems. Result? Customer dissatisfaction, reduction in uptime, and lost revenue. The Good News: End-to-end […]
Mobile Apps Are Under Attack — And App Stores Will Not Protect You
Advanced tactics allow attackers to break into mobile apps from the inside, bypass authentication systems, and compromise sensitive user information through deepfake-powered identity fraud.
Perforce Adds Autonomous AI Agent to Test Mobile Apps
Perforce Software today added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that autonomously adapts tests it has created as changes are made to mobile computing applications. Don Jackson, technical evangelist for Perforce, said via a natural language interface it’s now possible for DevOps teams to leverage an AI model that Perforce developed to generate tests using a […]
7 Best Practices to Monitor Your Microservices
Effective monitoring isn’t a single thing; it’s a synergistic approach built on three foundational pillars. Neglect even one, and you’re flying blind.
App Migration: How to Build a Winning Risk Management Plan
Highlighting the common risks associated with app migration and specifying steps for building an efficient risk management plan.
4 application modernization trends for 2025 and beyond
Experts highlight four trends shaping the app modernization landscape to help you navigate the process more efficiently.
Chaos Engineering for APIs: Integrate Failure Testing into Your CI/CD Pipeline
Adopting chaos engineering is not just about tools and processes. It can also lead to a significant shift in how development teams view failure.
LaunchDarkly Acquires Highlight to Bring Observability to Application Release Management
LaunchDarkly is looking to bring observability to feature flag management by acquiring Highlight, a provider of an open-source application monitoring tool.
Postman Adds Hub to Centralize Management of APIs
Postman this week added a Spec Hub platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to centralize the design, management and maintenance of application programming interface (API) specifications.
Opus Security Platform Assigns DevSecOps Tasks to AI Agents
Opus Security today unveiled a platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its vulnerability management platform that are trained to discover known issues and suggest remediations.
7 Critical API Protection Strategies to Fortify Your API Security
Against a backdrop of escalating threats and costly consequences, organizations need a comprehensive, multilayered approach to API security.
Apollo GraphQL Delivers on Promise to Integrate REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL has made generally available a set of connectors for REST application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it possible to use its GraphQL-based platform to declaratively integrate workflows and processes.