DevOps Didn’t Fail — We Just Finally Gave it the Tools it Deserved
Charity Majors delivers a wake-up jab to DevOps, sparking debate on its evolution and success. Is it a failure or just getting interesting? Alan dives into the discussion.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Discover top DevOps job opportunities this week from JP Morgan Chase, SpaceX, BBR Partners, Fox Corp, and Veeva Systems, designed to help professionals advance their careers.
Establishing DevOps for Mainframe Applications
Mainframes don’t have to block DevOps. Learn how extending CI/CD, Git, and security scanning to mainframe applications modernizes delivery without replacing mission-critical systems.
FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026
In 2026, cloud cost overruns stop being finance’s problem and become an engineering responsibility. Here’s how treating cost as code finally makes FinOps work.
GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows
GitLab today made generally available an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform that automates software engineering tasks ranging from planning to application security. Coinciding with the release of version 18.8 of the core GitLab platform, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform initially provides access to seven AI agents that DevOps teams can assign a range of tasks […]
Building a GenAI-RAG Runbooks-Based ChatOps Assistant in AWS Bedrock With MS Teams Integration for Incident Management
Learn how AWS Bedrock, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and ChatOps in Microsoft Teams transform incident response by turning fragmented runbooks into a GenAI-powered assistant that reduces MTTR and improves SRE efficiency.
Yes, We Know AI Isn’t a Person
Let’s get the obvious out of the way right up front. AI isn’t a person. Thank you, Captain Obvious. We’re all on the same page. And yet, when we announced that AI is Techstrong’s “Person of the Year” for our Predict 2026 virtual event on January 15, a few folks felt compelled to remind us […]
Your AI Agents Have a Blind Spot: What DevOps Teams Need to Know About Cross-LLM Security
Explore the challenges of AI agents in DevOps pipelines, highlighting the importance of model-aware detection to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
(Almost) Seven Signs That Your JavaScript Project is Legacy
Learn how to identify legacy JavaScript projects by examining outdated practices, architectural choices, and testing strategies that can hinder development.
Security Controls That Slow Teams Are Usually Poorly Designed
Discover strategies to enhance security controls in DevOps, emphasizing the shift from gates to guardrails and the importance of designing around real workflows.
DevSecOps In Digital Banking: Balancing Fast Releases With Regulatory Compliance
In the digital banking sector, fast releases of new features and security patches have become the norm. Unfortunately, many institutions lack the organization or the processes necessary to make the speed of necessary releases coincide with the need to follow strict regulatory guidelines. A failure to accurately test and ensure compliance can lead to critical […]
Lessons from 2025: The Year “Agent Mitigation” Became a Thing
Explore the emergence of agent mitigation as a formal discipline in response to 2025’s AI failures, highlighting best practices for secure and reliable AI agent deployment.
Part 3: The Zero-Touch Infrastructure: Architecting Systems That Fix Themselves
Part 3: Discover how autonomous SRE transforms incident management and system reliability, enabling self-healing systems that reduce reliance on human intervention.
Part 2: From Reactive to Predictive: Training LLMs on Your Incident History
Part 2: Discover how to harness incident history and AI to predict and prevent operational issues before they escalate, improving efficiency in Site Reliability Engineering.
Part 1: Death of the Toil: How AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Runbooks
Part one of a three-part series: Discover how AI-driven reasoning agents are revolutionizing SRE practices by eliminating traditional toil and enhancing incident management.
Predict 2026: Why AI Will Force DevOps to Reinvent Itself
Join us at Predict 2026 to explore how AI is transforming the DevOps landscape, enhancing software delivery, and redefining operational strategies.
Cursor Allies with 1Password to Secure AI Coding Secrets
Cursor has partnered with 1Password to better protect secrets as applications are developed using an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool. Nancy Wang, senior vice president and head of engineering for 1Password, said a Hooks Script provides application developers with a secure, just-in-time way to ensure only required secrets are made available to Cursor AI agents […]
Beyond the Prompt: A Quality-First Framework for AI-Assisted Engineering
Discover strategies for managing AI-generated technical debt and maintaining quality in software delivery as engineering teams accelerate their development processes.
Meta Introduces Confucius Code Agent: A New Approach to AI-Powered Software Engineering
Explore the Confucius Code Agent by Meta and Harvard, designed to enhance productivity in software engineering with a focus on agent architecture and operational performance.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Discover DevOps career opportunities at top companies like DevAltus, Nityo Infotech Corp., CyberCoders, Pacific Life, and Stanley Black & Decker in our weekly jobs report.
DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report
DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese startup’s first major model update since its R1 reasoning model in January 2025 sparked global attention and sent […]
Importance of Observability in the DevSecOps Pipeline: Enhancing Security, Compliance, and Collaboration
In today’s rapidly developing software world, security cannot be an afterthought. DevSecOps, the integration of security practices into every phase of DevOps, requires continuous monitoring and actionable insights to detect and mitigate threats effectively. Observability plays an essential role in this ecosystem by providing deep visibility into the security posture of the development process, enabling […]
From Reactive to Predictive: Capacity Planning Systems That Actually Work
I used to think capacity planning was about setting up CloudWatch alarms and hoping they’d fire before things broke. Spoiler: that’s not capacity planning—that’s just reactive firefighting with extra steps. Real capacity planning means knowing you’ll need more database capacity three weeks from now, not three minutes after your site starts timing out. It means […]