Business of DevOps
Why Automation Fails Without the Right QA Mindset
Imtiaz Shaik | | CI/CD Automation, continuous testing, devops best practices, DevOps Testing, Exploratory Testing, human-in-the-loop QA, QA mindset, QA vs automation, quality assurance strategy, regression testing, risk-based testing, shift-left testing, software quality, test automation, test maintainability, user experience testingIn the DevOps world, with its faster release cycles and continuous delivery, quality assurance (QA) cannot be sidelined until the end of the process. Companies that actively use automation achieve up to 60% faster ...
Worms in the Supply Chain: Shai-Hulud and the Next DevOps Reckoning
Jenn Yarnold | | artifact provenance, CI/CD security, continuous verification, credential theft, devops security, devsecops, GitHub tokens, npm malware, OIDC, pipeline security, SBoM, Secure software delivery, Shai-Hulud worm, short-lived tokens, Software Supply Chain, supply chain attackDevOps was supposed to make software delivery faster, safer and more reliable. For the most part, it has. But every so often, something nasty crawls out of the shadows and reminds us ...
How Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Fueling the Next Era of Developer Productivity
Mohith Shrivastava | | AgentExchange, agentic AI, AI Development, AI ecosystem, AI Governance, AI interoperability, AI protocols, AI standards, AI tool integration, devops, enterprise AI security, MCP, Model Context Protocol, open AI standards, Salesforce Agentforce, vibe codingMCP standardizes how AI agents connect to tools and data, solving fragmentation in AI development with secure, reusable, and scalable integrations ...
DORA 2025: Faster, But Are We Any Better?
Jenn Yarnold | | AI-assisted software development, amplification, culture & practices, developer productivity, DORA research, organizational systems, research report, strategic AI investmentThe 2025 DORA Report — The State of AI-assisted Software Development by DORA / Google Cloud — introduces the DORA AI Capabilities Model, arguing that AI functions best as an amplifier of ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Mike Vizard | | career advancement, career opportunities, DevOps jobs report, DevOps professionals, economic challenges, job market insights, salary ranges, talent shortageDevOps.com continues to provide a weekly jobs report to highlight career opportunities for DevOps professionals and opportunities highlighted this week include roles at NMI, HiBob and FloQast ...
How GitHub Plans to Secure npm After Recent Supply Chain Attacks
Tom Smith | | API token deprecation, CI/CD authentication, crates.io security, npm 2FA, npm registry attack, npm token theft, open source security, package registry malware, PyPI trusted publishing, Shai-Hulud worm, Software Supply Chain Security, trusted publishingGitHub strengthens npm security after Shai-Hulud worm attack with mandatory 2FA, granular tokens, and trusted publishing to protect the open source supply chain ...
The DevSecOps Career Path: What No One Tells You About Getting Started
Philip Piletic | | CI/CD security, Cloud Security, container security, developer security skills, devops security, DevOps to DevSecOps, devsecops, DevSecOps career transition, DevSecOps certifications, DevSecOps roadmap, DevSecOps skills, infrastructure as code security, OWASP Top 10, Secure software delivery, supply chain securityDevOps teams across organizations are suddenly finding themselves responsible for security with no roadmap. One day, teams are focused on deployment velocity and infrastructure automation, the next day, they're expected to understand ...
Hugging Face Opens GitHub Copilot Chat to Open-Source Models
Tom Smith | | AI coding assistants, AI model switching in VS Code, AI-assisted development, developer workflows automation, Hugging Face VS Code extension, open-source coding AI, VS Code AI tools, VS Code Copilot alternativesHugging Face’s new VS Code extension makes GitHub Copilot Chat more flexible, enabling developers to test open-source LLMs like DeepSeek and GLM 4.5 ...
Is the Future of DevOps DaaS?
Alexander Williams | | AI-Driven DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, DaaS, DaaS adoption, DaaS buyer profiles, devops automation, devops culture, DevOps economics, DevOps engineers future, DevOps future trends, DevOps governance, DevOps integration challenges, DevOps outsourcing, DevOps vs DaaS, devops-as-a-service, enterprise DevOps strategy, hybrid DaaS, managed DevOps, platform engineering, vendor lock-in DevOpsDevOps as a service (DaaS) is emerging as the next big shift in how organizations build, deploy and maintain their software pipelines. What started as do-it-yourself automation with Jenkins scripts and self-hosted ...
From Legacy to GitOps: A Roadmap for Enterprise Modernization
Ekambar Kumar Singirikonda | | devops, enterprise GitOps roadmap, gitops, GitOps automation, GitOps cultural shift, GitOps governance, GitOps security, IaC GitOps, infrastructure as code, policy as code GitOpsLearn how enterprises can modernize legacy infrastructure with GitOps. A roadmap for automation, governance, and resilience at scale ...
OpenAI’s GPT-5-Codex: A Smarter Approach to Enterprise Development
Tom Smith | | AI code review, AI in DevOps, complex debugging AI, enterprise AI coding, enterprise software development, GPT-5 for developers, GPT-5-Codex, IDE Integration, long-running tasks AI, OpenAI CodexOpenAI’s GPT-5-Codex is built for real-world enterprise software engineering, handling long-running tasks, complex refactoring, and intelligent code reviews with strong security and IDE integration ...
Outages and Security Threats in DevOps Tooling: Cracks in the Foundation
Jenn Yarnold | | AI-native workflows, CI/CD pipeline security, cloud-native pipelines, DevOps breaches, DevOps outages, DevOps resilience, GitHub outages, Jira vulnerabilities, platform engineering, secure delivery, Software Supply ChainAlan warns that DevOps toolchains — from GitHub to Jira — are showing cracks, with outages and breaches threatening delivery resilience. He urges platform engineers to design for failure, harden security, and ...
