Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes
Most platform teams aren’t deciding whether they’ll run across multiple clouds. They already are, or they’ll be soon. The real question is how to migrate critical systems without turning on-call into a guessing game. Observability raises the stakes more than almost any other domain. An observability control plane isn’t just a dashboard. It’s the operational […]
JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents
JetBrains has launched a new “agentic” tooling stack that pairs a multi‑agent development environment, Air, with a standalone, LLM‑agnostic coding agent, Junie CLI. If you know JetBrains, you probably know it for Kotlin, the statically typed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) language used mostly for Android development, or for its well-known integrated development environments (IDEs), such […]
The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It
Observability has always had a data quality problem. AI coding agents just made it catastrophically worse. Shimmy sits down with the co-founders of Sawmills to dig into why unmanaged telemetry is the unglamorous DevOps crisis that is quietly killing budgets — and what an agentic telemetry management platform actually does about it.
Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop
Google’s latest Gemini Code Assist updates focus on workflow, not hype: Agent Mode with Auto Approve, inline diffs, a Context Drawer, custom commands, Finish Changes, and Outlines streamline how developers review, trust, and integrate AI-generated code in VS Code and IntelliJ.
Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment
Microsoft’s new Azure Skills Plugin closes the gap between AI-written code and production deployments by packaging expert Azure knowledge as executable skills, backed by MCP servers for real infrastructure actions and AI workflows—bringing guardrails, consistency, and speed to DevOps and platform teams.
Anthropic Code Review Dispatches Agent Teams to Catch the Bugs That Skim Reads Miss
Anthropic Code Review dispatches agent teams to find bugs in PRs. Multi-agent analysis, severity ranking, and inline fixes for Teams and Enterprise.
Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI
An analysis of 2,000 organizations worldwide finds that historically lower performing software engineering teams are seeing nearly a 50% improvement in lead time to delivery, a four times greater rate of improvement over higher performing teams that have adopted AI coding tools. Conducted by Plandek, a provider of a developer productivity intelligence platform, the report […]
VS Code Is Becoming an Agent Control Plane — and Most Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet
VS Code 1.110 ships agent plugins, hooks, and persistent memory. Microsoft is embedding control plane primitives into the IDE for AI agent governance.
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent for Jira Connects Planning to Pull Requests Without Leaving Your Workflow
GitHub Copilot, the coding agent, now integrates with Jira. Assign issues to Copilot and get draft PRs — no context switching between planning and code.
How We Got Here: Alert Fatigue to Decision Fatigue
AI and observability reduced alert fatigue, but decision fatigue remains. Decision architecture helps DevOps teams scale operational judgment.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Latest DevOps Jobs report highlights opportunities at Lenovo, IBM, Yale and Weights & Measures. Find out more here.
On-Call Rotation Best Practices: Reducing Burnout and Improving Response
Practical SRE on‑call guide covering rotation models, alert hygiene, runbooks, metrics, compensation, shadowing, and automation to cut pager load and prevent engineer burnout.
Can QA Reignite its Purpose in the Agentic Code Generation Era?
AI-generated code is accelerating development but it exposes a deeper issue. Why deterministic infrastructure is becoming the foundation of agentic QA.
Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI
A global survey of 820 IT decision makers and DevOps practitioners finds that half of respondents (53%) report that developers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) are now authoring more tests directly. Conducted by Perforce, that shift also appears to be enabling a similar percentage of organizations (55%) to provide quality assurance (QA) teams […]
Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues
Codenotary is previewing a software-as–a-service (SaaS) platform that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents it has developed to autonomously detect, prioritize, and fix security, configuration, and performance issues. Company CEO Moshe Bar said the Codenotary Trust platform also enables continuous vulnerability tracking at both the Linux operating system and application level. Once an issue is detected, […]
Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI
Sonar this week launched an Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) framework that promises to modernize continuous integration (CI) in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) coding. Announced at an online Sonar Summit, the AC/DC framework incorporates multiple tools and platforms the company has developed to better secure software supply chains, including now in beta Sonar […]
Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries
Learn how Chainguard is strengthening software supply chains by expanding its secure repository of Java, JavaScript, and Python libraries, enabling DevOps teams to access components compliant with SLSA framework standards.
Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas
Observability systems generate massive telemetry, but schema drift creates friction. Learn how inferred schemas and OpenTelemetry Weaver restore structure.
N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data
A group of more than two dozen malicious npm packages used to steal secrets and credentials from software developers has all the hallmarks – from infrastructure to operations – of Famous Chollima, the North Korean nation-state actor linked to the ongoing high-profile Contagious Interview scam. Threat researchers with Socket and Kieran Miyamoto of the DPRK […]
Eclipse Foundation Extends Scope and Reach of Open VSX Registry
The Eclipse Foundation launches a new framework for the Open VSX Registry, enhancing security features and transitioning to a hybrid architecture. With support from AI tool provider Cursor, this initiative aims to promote safer software supply chains.
Context Engineering is the Key to Unlocking AI Agents in DevOps
Explore how context engineering is essential for transforming AI agents from experimental prototypes to reliable production tools in DevOps. Understand its impact on automation workflows, accuracy, and scalability.
Why the Next Wave of Infrastructure Automation Requires a Different Kind of Intelligence
Every decade or so, something fundamental shifts in how we think about infrastructure. Not an upgrade, a rethinking. Virtualization changed what infrastructure was. The cloud changed where it lived. Infrastructure as Code changed how it was defined. Each of those shifts felt incremental from the inside and transformative in hindsight. We’re at one of those […]
Microsoft Executives Warn AI Could Limit the Developer Talent Pipeline
Generative AI is transforming software development at remarkable speed. But in a new paper written by two Microsoft executives, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman, VP of the developer community, argue that the AI technology also risks eroding the profession’s training pipeline. In their paper, Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI, published in […]