The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages
A practical 10-layer monitoring framework for Kubernetes and VM environments that prioritizes what to watch—system, application, HTTP/RUM, databases, caches, queues, tracing, SSL, external deps, and log patterns—to prevent outages and reduce noisy alerts.
Why Responsible AI Isn’t Optional in DevOps — it is the Next Frontier of Ownership
The integration of AI in DevOps brings both opportunities and accountability challenges. This article explores the implications of AI decision-making within CI/CD pipelines and emphasizes the need for governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI use while maintaining trust and efficiency.
Survey Surfaces Disconnect Between DevOps Metrics and Business KPIs
A survey of 418 DevOps professionals finds that while DevOps teams closely monitor and observe the performance of applications, not nearly as many are able to correlate the value of those efforts to the business. Conducted by Catchpoint, a unit of LogicMonitor, the survey finds more than two-thirds (67%) believe application degradations are either always […]
Legit Security AI Tool Uses Threat Feed to Identify Risks to Software Supply Chain
Legit Security this week added a threat feed that DevSecOps teams can use to instantly determine if a newly discovered vulnerability impacts their software supply chain. Built using the Legit VibeGuard tool, the threat feed added to the company’s application security posture management (ASPM) platform also enables DevSecOps teams to take advantage of “vibecoding” techniques […]
Designing Privacy-Safe Logging at Scale: Lessons from Building Compliance-Aware Observability Systems
As regulatory scrutiny increases and distributed systems grow more complex, many organizations have accepted that privacy-safe logging is important. Fewer have figured out how to actually build it without sacrificing observability, developer velocity, or incident response effectiveness. The failure mode is consistent: logging controls are bolted on late, enforced unevenly, and trusted only when no […]
Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
Virtual care went from nice to have to must have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will continue: health-tech companies are predicting the telemedicine market will be $143.49 billion by 2025 (it will be $167.74 billion in 2025 and $584.99 […]
Malicious VS Code Extensions Take Screenshots, Steal Info
Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware to the victims’ systems. The malicious extensions come posing as a harmless “premium dark theme” and an AI-powered coding assistant, but both – […]
Multi-Agent System Promises Faster Bug Detection and Resolution
IT outages cost companies over $14,000 per minute. IBM Research’s Project ALICE uses multiple AI agents to help engineers find bugs faster and restore systems. Software bugs are expensive. When a critical system goes down, every minute of downtime costs revenue, frustrates customers, and strains engineering teams scrambling to find the problem. The challenge isn’t […]
AWS Transform Modernizes Any Codebase, App, API or Runtime
Platforms, paradigms, processes and processing itself all evolve. Because the information technology industry crosses from one chasm to another on an apparently endless loop of perpetual change, applications and wider systems need to be almost continually modernized. Amazon Web Services wants to enable that process with AWS Transform, a service that now ships with new […]
Second Coming of Shai-Hulud Cyberattack Ravages JavaScript Repositories
A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headache for DevSecOps teams around the globe. Based on what is being described as the “Second Coming” of Shai-Hulud, this version affects a much wider range of npms and is much […]
Patch Management is Essential for Securing DevOps
Zero-day exploits don’t wait for anyone and are one of the main reasons why the cybersecurity market will be worth a whopping $256 billion worldwide. In the current threat landscape, attackers weaponize vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, and that puts DevOps teams in a precarious position. The ability to patch quickly and confidently can mean […]
Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability
Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]
Minimus Adds VEX Support to Managed Hardened Images Service
Minimus has extended its managed service for providing application developers with hardened images to include support for the Vulnerability Exploittability eXchange (VEX) format used to share data across multiple application security tools and platforms along with hardened Helm charts for securely deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, Minimus has added compliance dashboards and views, and […]
Survey Sees Argo CD Starting to Gain Significant Traction
A survey of 185 software development professionals who have adopted the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform finds that 97% are now using it in production environments, with 60% running Argo for more than two years.
ControlMonkey Adds Dashboard to Manage IaC Risk
ControlMonkey today added a risk index dashboard to its automation platform for managing code created using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools based on open-source Terraform software.
Veracode Allies with Wiz to Bring More Context to DevSecOps Workflows
Veracode today revealed an alliance through which it will integrate its application security posture management (ASPM) platform with the cloud native application protection platform from Wiz.
Bitrise to Invest $3M in DevOps Cloud for Mobile Apps in EU
Bitrise, a provider of a DevOps platform for building mobile applications, plans to invest $3 million to create data centers in the European Union (EU) that meet sovereign cloud requirements. Company CEO Barnabás Birmacher said Bitrise has spent much of the past year integrating its stack and consolidating the infrastructure it needs to support its […]
Explanation First, Then Code Conversion: A Practical Guide to Mainframe Optimization
Before you even think about code conversion, take a closer look at what you have—and let generative AI (GenAI) help you explain it. Here’s how to modernize your mainframe smarter, not just faster. The Real Challenge: Understanding Decades-Old Practices and Code If you’ve worked with mainframes for any length of time, you’ve seen it before: […]
Chronosphere Streamlines Management of Log Data to Reduce Costs
Chronosphere today added additional capabilities to its log management platform that enable DevOps teams to both reduce costs and surface more actionable insights. Alok Bhide, head of product innovation for Chronosphere, said Chronosphere Logs 2.0 provides DevOps teams with more granular control over how log data is collected and stored. The overall goal is to […]
Redgate Extends Effort to Integrate Database Management and DevOps Workflows
Redgate has updated its Flyway platform for applying DevOps workflows to database platforms to now provide deeper integration into command line interface (CLI) tools and integrated developer environments (IDEs). In addition, the Flyway platform now enables state-based deployments using scripts that can be generated based on a specific schema. Finally, Redgate is also adding options […]
How DevOps Powers Boundless Automation in Industrial Environments
Industrial environments, once resistant to rapid technological change, are now embracing automation to streamline operations, reduce errors and enhance productivity.
DevOps: More Than a Buzzword—A Mindset of Continuous Evolution
In recent years, the term DevOps has become one of the most talked-about buzzwords in the technology world. You’ll hear it in boardroom discussions, IT conferences, job postings, and even startup meetups. Companies want to “go DevOps,” developers want to work in DevOps environments, and recruiters are constantly looking for DevOps Engineers. But despite all […]
Zencoder Previews AI Agents for DevOps Engineering Teams
Zencoder today revealed it is providing early access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed specifically to automate tasks across DevOps workflows running on continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms based on open source instances of Jenkins or platforms from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, CircleCI and others. Previously, Zencoder launched an AI platform for writing and testing code […]