GitHub’s Spec Kit Puts the Spec Back in Software Development
GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit aims to eliminate “vibe coding” by prioritizing durable specifications over vague prompts, providing a structured, agent-agnostic workflow for Copilot, Claude, and Gemini.
When Should a DevOps Agent Act Without Human Approval?
Deploying AI agents in DevOps requires a granular approach to autonomy based on reversibility, blast radius, signal quality, and time sensitivity to build organizational trust.
NetDevOps Isn’t Stalled, it’s Stuck on the Wrong Problem
While technical tools like Python and Ansible are mature, 44% of professionals identify cultural and organizational hurdles as the primary barriers to NetDevOps adoption and successful automation.
AI-Generated Apps Without DevOps: A Security Disaster Waiting to Happen
A small internal tool was built over a weekend. An engineer used an AI coding assistant to generate most of the backend. A simple interface was added, a few API calls were wired together and within hours the app was live. The app worked. The app felt fast. The app looked like progress. No one […]
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. […]
Survey Surfaces Significant Levels of IDP Investment to Reduce SDLC Friction
A survey of 954 IT decision-makers suggests more resources are now being allocated to reducing friction across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Conducted by CDW, the survey finds more than two-thirds of respondents (68%) report their organization has adopted an internal developer platform (IDP). The primary goal is to improve operational efficiency (57%), provide better […]
Beyond the Build: Integrating Security into CI/CD Pipelines
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are essential for delivering applications efficiently. However, the speed and automation they offer can inadvertently introduce security vulnerabilities if not properly managed. Integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, often referred to as DevSecOps, is no longer optional; it’s a necessity. The Importance of […]
Survey Sees AI Driving DevOps Productivity Gains Despite Challenges
A global survey of 636 software development professionals published today finds nearly two-thirds (64%) believe they are achieving at least a 25% increase in developer velocity and productivity using artificial intelligence (AI). Conducted by Jellyfish, a provider of a software engineering intelligence platform, just under a quarter (24%) report there has been a 50% to […]
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.
Atlassian Underpins Code Creation With New Agentic Insight Channels
Atlassian used its Team ’26 user conference this month in Anaheim to explain how its platform has now further evolved to underpin the reality of what the company defines as the AI‑native organization. This still-emerging entity is a company (or indeed a department, an individual team or working group) where human teams are co‑creating alongside […]
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 […]
Mistral Moves Coding Agents to the Cloud — and Gets Out of Your Way
Mistral’s latest release shifts AI-assisted development from your laptop to the cloud. Here’s what that means for development teams.
IREN to Acquire Mirantis to Reduce IT Infrastructure Management Friction
IREN Ltd, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, today revealed its intent to acquire Mirantis, a provider of open source OpenStack and Kubernetes software that is deployed in both cloud computing and on-premises IT environments. Under terms of the agreement valued at $625 million, Mirantis will operate as an independent subsidiary of IREN, a former […]
Incredibuild Unveils Islo Sandbox to Isolate AI Coding Agents
Incredibuild this week developed a sandbox, dubbed Islo, that makes it possible to safely run artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents. Company CEO Shimon Hason said Islo provides an isolated execution environment that enables DevOps teams to limit access to sensitive data, codebases, resources and services. Each AI coding agent is then provided with its own […]
Reimagining AI-Assisted Coding for Team Scale in Enterprises
AI coding tools have advanced rapidly, but most are still designed around the individual developer. Their effectiveness depends heavily on a user’s ability to write understandable prompts, preserve architectural coherence across sessions, and identify areas that require additional work. This model works for some engineers, but it is far less dependable for a large organization’s […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Cursor’s New SDK Turns AI Coding Agents Into Deployable Infrastructure
Cursor’s TypeScript SDK lets teams invoke AI coding agents programmatically from CI/CD pipelines, with sandboxed VMs, MCP support, and token-based pricing.
The Trust Problem With AI Agents in Production Pipelines
AI agents boost DevOps pipelines, but confident failures create risk. Here’s how to design for calibrated trust and human oversight.
The Velocity Trap: Why Shipping Faster Is Making Systems Worse
There is a particular flavour of engineering dysfunction that looks, from the outside, like peak performance. Deployments are frequent. Sprint velocity is high. The feature backlog is shrinking. Leadership is pleased. And underneath all of it, the system is quietly rotting. Technical debt compounds with every rushed deployment. Observability gaps widen because nobody has time […]
Anthropic Brings AI-Powered Security Scanning to Enterprise Teams With Claude Security
Anthropic’s Claude Security is now in public beta for Enterprise customers, offering AI-powered codebase scanning and patch generation for security teams.
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 […]
IBM Bob Takes AI Coding Assistants to the Next Level
IBM Bob goes beyond AI-assisted coding to support the full software development lifecycle — with governance, security, and multi-model orchestration built in.
Documentation is Dead. Long Live Documentation.
Why traditional documentation fails and how capturing knowledge during work creates a living, scalable system of record.