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“Shove Left” – Dumping Downstream Tasks Onto Developers – A Recipe for Failure
Beware the "Shove Left" anti-pattern. Simply dumping downstream tasks onto developers without changing the system is a recipe for burnout, inefficiency and failure ...

We’re Not Being Replaced. We’re Inventing What Comes Next, Including Ourselves.
After graduating with degrees in computer science and business in hand, I entered the software industry with the energy and optimism of someone ready to create great software. My first job wasn’t ...

Observability in Retail: How to Monitor and Manage Interactive Kiosk Fleets
Managing kiosks at scale creates visibility challenges. Centralized observability and proactive monitoring can help teams stay ahead of outages ...

Emerging DevOps Trends: Security, Scalability and Sustainability
As DevOps continues to grow, rapid changes such as security, scalability and sustainability are at the forefront of these changes ...

CI/CD Pipelines for Large Teams: How to Keep Velocity Without Breaking the Build
Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential for modern software teams, as there is now a need for fast feature delivery and high-velocity improvements. However, achieving high speed may be ...

Survey Surfaces Multiple Persistent DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of leaders based in North America finds 62% work for organizations that knowingly release insecure code to meet delivery deadlines ...

Special Agents, StackGen Drives DevOps Deeper Into Infrastructure
StackGen's Autonomous Infrastructure Platform features AI agents to build and manage cloud infrastructure with autonomous capabilities ...

When AI Assistants Turn Against You: The Amazon Q Security Wake-Up Call
Amazon Q coding assistant was compromised with malicious prompts designed to wipe AWS accounts. What this near-miss teaches us about AI security ...

Daddy, Where Do Software Engineers Come From?
There’s one question every parent dreads hearing from their child: “Daddy, where do babies come from?” We’ve all heard the responses over the years—storks, God, mommy’s belly, “ask your mother,” you name ...

Accelerating GenAI Innovation with DevOps Hackathons—Hackathon Insights, Strategic Gaps and Future Directions
Importance of Hackathon Hackathons have become a vital platform for driving innovation, collaboration, and skill development across diverse industries. These intense, time-bound events bring together programmers, designers, and problem solvers to rapidly ...

Turning the Software Factory into an Intelligence Engine
If you’re a technology leader, you need to ask yourself: Are we still building software factories when we should be engineering intelligence? ...

What Do DevOps Engineers Think of the Current State of DevOps
DevOps is no longer about “doing DevOps” — it's about owning DevOps Platforms, empowering developers and leveraging AI as a force multiplier ...