Visual Studio Copilot Gets Planning Mode for Complex Tasks
Microsoft launches the Planning feature for Visual Studio Copilot, now in public preview for Visual Studio 2022 17.14. Planning gives developers a structured way to manage multistep coding tasks, improving transparency, performance, and workflow efficiency by up to 20%.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Discover the latest DevOps job openings in this week’s DevOps.com report. Explore top companies like Adobe, Zoom, Costco IT, and more hiring DevOps engineers nationwide with competitive salaries and growth opportunities.
BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS
BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]
From Cloud to Cognitive Infrastructure: How AI is Redefining the Next Frontier of SRE
As organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) workloads alongside traditional cloud systems, site reliability engineering (SRE) must evolve to manage an entirely new class of infrastructure — intelligent, hybrid and graphics processing unit (GPU)-driven. Infrastructure has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. We began with physical servers in local data centers, then virtualization improved efficiency […]
Rewriting the Rules of Software Quality: Why Agentic QA is the Future CIOs Must Champion
Discover how Agentic QA is transforming enterprise software testing with autonomous AI systems that embed quality into every stage of development.
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Developer’s Guide to AI Reusability
Every great innovation brings on new challenges, and AI is no exception. As technology leaders instruct their workforces to default to using AI in their day-to-day tasks and as AI workflows become increasingly critical to software engineering practices, a familiar challenge persists: reusability. There are libraries, packages and shared components available for reuse with traditional […]
The New Metrics of DevOps: Speed, Trust and Transparency
At swampUP 2025, Alan sits down with Aman Sardana and Vijay Kumar Soni to talk through one of the defining challenges of modern software delivery—how DevOps practices must evolve to accommodate the growing influence of artificial intelligence across the software development lifecycle. They explore the intersection of automation, security and scalability as organizations rethink their […]
Opsera Adds AI Agent Capable of Analyzing Quality of Code Generated by AI Tools
Opsera today added an artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning agent to its platform that is specifically trained to surface in real time how DevOps teams are deriving value from investments in AI coding tools. At the same time, Opsera is adding to its namesake platform for managing and automating DevOps workflows an ability to integrate with […]
Analysis Identifies 10 AI Coding Tool Behaviors That Ignore Best Software Engineering Practices
An analysis of more than 300 open source repositories published today by Ox Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) platform, identifies 10 systematic behaviors of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools that ignore established best practices for software engineering. Eyal Paz, vice president of research at OX Security, said that while policies […]
Harness Adds Vibecoding Tool to Migrate Databases Within DevOps Workflows
Harness adds an AI-powered vibecoding tool to automate database migrations via natural language, integrating seamlessly with its CI/CD DevOps platform.
OpenTelemetry and AI are Unlocking Logs as the Essential Signal for “Why”
Logs reveal the “why” behind failures. Learn how OpenTelemetry and AI transform raw log data into structured, actionable insights for modern observability.
The Agentic AI-Driven Future of Telemetry
Telemetry is evolving from passive data to AI-grade fuel. Learn how agentic telemetry fuses human and machine context to power self-healing, intelligent systems.
The Silent Technical Debt: Why Manual Remediation Is Costing You More Than You Think
Manual vulnerability remediation drains time, innovation, and security. Learn how intelligent remediation eliminates hidden technical debt and accelerates DevSecOps.
Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability
Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]
The Breakneck Future of Codegen: Why AI SWE Must Be Matched with AI SRE
AI codegen is transforming software development — but as speed and complexity increase, so does fragility. AI for site reliability will need to keep pace to avoid system breakdown and engineer burnout.
Why Nano Updates Only Work if You Begin with the Latest and Greatest Software
Is there a silent threat of technical debt looming in your organization? You probably should take a deeper look. Modern software systems are composed of hundreds of interdependent components. How are you updating those components – system libraries, base containers, and app packages? Do it poorly, and you will trigger unintended side effects, like failing […]
The Developer’s Guide to Agentic AI: The Five Stages of Agent Lifecycle Management
Discover how AI agents evolve from task executors to adaptive, self-improving systems through Agentic Lifecycle Management, driving agility and innovation.
Cycode Previews Ability to Identify AI Tools and Platforms Used to Write Code
Cycode today announced it is providing early access to a capability that identifies which artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools are being employed by application developers in addition to adding an AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) that also identifies what underlying technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), are being invoked. Devin Maguire, senior product marketing […]
Sonar Previews Service to Improve Quality of AI Generated Code
Sonar’s SonarSweep improves AI-generated code by reducing bugs and vulnerabilities, helping organizations train more reliable AI models.
The Cloud Reset: DevOps Brings Workloads Back to Private Clouds
DevOps teams are leading a “cloud reset,” moving workloads from public to private clouds for greater control, security and cost predictability. As organizations mature beyond cloud-first strategies, hybrid and private cloud environments are becoming the foundation for smarter, more accountable DevOps operations.
How Software Engineers and Students Use AI to Move Faster than Ever (Without Breaking Things)
We’re living through the AI revolution — or more accurately, the age of augmented intelligence. From agentic AI tools transforming software development to AI-native education shaping the next generation, super{set} explores how developers, students, and businesses can harness AI to amplify human potential and innovation.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Moving career? The DevOps job opportunities highlighted this week include roles at Viasat, CTG, Dell Technologies and OpenAI.
Infrastructure as Code, Security Blind Spots, and the Messy Reality of DevOps
I’ve spent most of my career in infrastructure and reliability engineering, from years as an SRE at Google to leading teams at Facebook and now building Spacelift. Along the way, I’ve watched entire paradigms rise and fall, seen technologies mature, and learned some hard lessons about where DevOps and security meet—and where they clash. The […]