The Flow Illusion: Why Transformation Feels Like Theatre
You’ve invested in the tools. Your teams have dashboards that track cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. You’ve likely even built a sophisticated, probabilistic roadmap. Yet, despite the data, it feels like theatre. The moment the workshop ends, that roadmap becomes a static slide deck, and teams remain paralyzed, waiting for you to update […]
IronWorm Malware Shares Shai-Hulud Traits, Takes Threat to ‘Next Level’
Open source software developers continue to come under attack, with the latest threat being a custom malware that shares many of the attributes of the notorious Shai-Hulud self-propagating worm but comes with functions that make it more difficult for defenders to detect and to reverse engineer. Dubbed “IronWorm,” the infostealer is built in the Rust […]
The Silent Risk of AI-Written DevOps Pipelines
These days, when a developer needs a CI/CD pipeline, they don’t always dive into GitHub Actions docs or spin up Jenkins from scratch. Instead, they pull up an AI assistant and type out something like: “Create a deployment pipeline for a containerized application.” Seconds later, the AI spits out a complete workflow. It looks polished. […]
Harness Acquires Codecov to Identify Untested Code
Harness this week acquired Codecov, a provider of a platform that analyzes the percentage of a codebase that has been tested, from Sentry. Brad Rydzewski, a senior vice president and general manager for Harness, said Codecov makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track testing coverage at a time when the volume of code being […]
Regression Testing Tools in the Age of AI-Assisted Development: What Has Changed
For most of the past decade, the conversation around regression testing tools was fairly stable. The tools got faster, the integrations got smoother, and the underlying approach stayed largely the same: write tests, run them in CI, fix failures. The fundamental model did not change much because the problem did not change much. AI-assisted development […]
Can Chainguard Save Open-Source Software From Mythos? Can Anyone?
IBM and Red Hat aren’t the only ones that mean to lock down open-source code against AI hacking tools. Last week, IBM and Red Hat launched Project Lightwell to protect open-source projects with $5 billion and 20 thousand engineers. Not to be outdone, with tongue in cheek, Chainguard’s CEO Dan Lorenc announced a $50 million, […]
Overcoming IP Churn in Ephemeral DevOps Environments Using Userspace Overlays
Modern DevOps practices have completely transformed how we handle compute and orchestration. Tools like Kubernetes enable engineering teams to spin up ephemeral containers in seconds and scale workloads dynamically to meet global demand. Yet the underlying network infrastructure has remained stubbornly rigid. Traditional cloud networking relies heavily on static IP addresses, rigid firewall rules, and […]
Why Enterprise AI Infrastructure Is Becoming a DevOps Problem
Most enterprise AI projects start with retrieval. You connect Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and Slack. Maybe a few internal databases nobody has touched in five years. You tune embeddings, optimize chunking, wire up a vector database, and convince yourself you’ve built an AI-powered knowledge system. Then the model server crashes. And suddenly, you discover the uncomfortable […]
OWASP Adopts CVE Lite CLI to Boost Dependency Scanning
Checking for dependency vulnerabilities in freshly developed software is usually done near the end of the build process. Remediation at that point can be tricky. Now, JavaScript and TypeScript developers can check for vulnerabilities themselves as they – or their agents – write their source code, using an open source project called CVE Lite CLI. […]
AI Agents in CI/CD Pipelines: Speed vs Control in Modern DevOps
The moment you push your code, deployment fires off on its own. The pipeline kicks in, the tests sail through, and within a few minutes your app is live in production. There is no manual sign-off and no one scanning through the final changes. Everything is running on the decisions of an AI agent plugged […]
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 […]
OpenSSF’s CRob: ‘The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out’ on EU CRA Readiness
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act kicks into high gear this September, and companies are still clueless about how they must obey its strictures. MINNEAPOLIS — At Open Source Summit North America, Christopher “CRob” Robinson, Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF), spoke about the European Union’s (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). CRob […]
Microsoft Copilot Studio Brings Computer-Using Agents to the Enterprise
For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor portals, and proprietary line-of-business platforms rarely offer APIs. That means someone, usually a human, ends up clicking through screens, entering data, and completing transactions by hand. […]
AWS Security Agent Brings Full Repository Code Scanning to Preview
Security teams have long relied on static analysis tools to catch vulnerabilities before code ships. Those tools are useful, but they have a fundamental limitation: they match code against known patterns. They don’t understand your application. AWS is taking a different approach with its latest addition to AWS Security Agent. The company recently released full […]
The Rise of Composable Architectures to Replace Traditional Platforms
Traditional monolithic platforms have served their purpose. As technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing usher in a new digital age, flexible and modular architectures will take their place. Developers and cloud professionals should familiarize themselves with composable architecture’s principles, benefits and implementation best practices to remain competitive in an evolving technological landscape. Composable Architectures […]
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. […]
OpenAI’s Daybreak Challenges Anthropic in AI Cybersecurity Race
OpenAI has moved deeper into enterprise cybersecurity with the launch of Daybreak, a platform that identifies software vulnerabilities, validates fixes, and speeds up patching workflows using AI models and its Codex Security system. Daybreak places OpenAI more directly in competition with Anthropic, whose Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos models also offer dual-use AI systems built […]
Vercel’s deepsec Brings AI-Powered Security Scanning Into the Development Workflow
Security has long been the last item on the checklist. Code gets written, reviewed, merged—and then, somewhere down the line, a security team takes a look. That model worked when development moved at a human pace. It doesn’t work as well when AI writes and refactors code faster than any team can keep up with. […]
Bridging the IT Divide Without Breaking What Already Works
Modernizing SQL Server infrastructure means balancing stability, automation and uptime across legacy and modern IT environments.
The Great Decoupling: Scaling the Outer Loop for the Agentic Era
The “Inner Loop” of software development—the iterative cycle of writing, building, and debugging code—has just broken the sound barrier. With the emergence of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot Workspace, the developer experience has undergone a fundamental shift. Developers are no longer merely tab-completing snippets; they are orchestrating agents that generate entire […]
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 […]
Documentation is Dead. Long Live Documentation.
Why traditional documentation fails and how capturing knowledge during work creates a living, scalable system of record.
When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data
You can’t make this crap up. You just wish you could. Jer Crane, founder of the small vertical software company, PocketOS, reported on X that the AI Cursor coding agent and a Railway backup misconfiguration combined to briefly wipe out the company’s car‑rental customer production data. Not some of the data. All of it. That’s […]