Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Development rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating that loop. These tiers are not marketing fluff. They are practical on-ramps for developers and engineers. They offer the freedom to test, compare, […]
AI: Do or Don’t Believe the Hype
If you’ve been anywhere near a tech conference, your LinkedIn feed, or a DevOps Slack channel lately, you’ve probably heard someone claim AI is either the greatest productivity weapon since version control… or the world’s most overhyped autocomplete. Depending on who’s talking, AI is either saving the day or slowing workflow to a crawl. As […]
Why Continuous Integration Matters More Than Ever
Continuous Integration is now essential to modern DevOps, automating testing and deployment to deliver faster, higher-quality software with less risk and stronger team collaboration.
ArmorCode Extends AI Tool to Generate Code Fixes for Specific Runtime Environments
ArmorCode, this week at the Black Hat USA 2025 conference, revealed it has extended its Anya artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate suggested code fixes that are customized for specific runtime environments.
Black Duck Software Extends AI Reach to IDE to Better Secure Code
Black Duck Software, this week at the Black Hat USA 2025 conference, revealed it has now integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) tool for securing software, dubbed Black Duck Assist, into the company’s plug-in for integrated developer environments (IDEs).
What Vibe Coding Means for the Enterprise: Fast Code, Real Considerations
When vibe coding is adopted without guardrails, it introduces substantial risks that can undermine the very productivity gains it promises.
PlayerZero Adds Ability to Simulate Code to AI Platform
PlayerZero has extended its namesake platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze codebases by adding the ability to simulate code created using generative AI coding tools. Fresh off raising an additional $15 million in funding, PlayerZero CEO Animesh Koratana said CodeSim makes it possible to predict how that code will impact a codebase without […]
From Incidents to Insights: The Power of Blameless Postmortems
Blameless post-mortems flip the script, transforming incidents into structured opportunities for learning, accountability and resilience.
Survey Attributes Massive Economic Gains to Rise of AI in Software Development
A global survey of executives finds organizations are saving $28,249 per developer annually thanks to investments in AI.
Cycode Delivers AI Agent to Assess How Exploitable Vulnerabilities Are
Cycode has added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that has been specifically trained to determine how exploitable a specific vulnerability found in an application actually is.
The Evolution of DevOps Continues: How 2,000 Token-Per-Second AI Code Generation Changes Everything
This shift toward instant AI code generation represents a productivity improvement; it’s a change in how we approach software operations.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
The five job postings shared this week include remote DevOps roles at Hims and Hers Health, Credit Acceptance and Atlassian.
BMC Extends Scope and Reach of DevOps Mainframe Workflows
BMC has extended its DevOps analytics tool for mainframe environments, dubbed BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise, to now be able to collect Git usage data to make it simpler to identify bottlenecks and other workflow issues in addition to making available in beta a BMC AMI Assistant tool that enables IT teams to via a natural language interface chat with a generative artificial intelligence that BMC has trained to help optimize operations.
Redefining Engineering Excellence: How Product Skills Amplify Your Impact in the Era of AI
AI allows engineers to delegate tasks to a ‘personal junior engineer’. This raises an important question: What’s next for software engineers?
The Benefits of Using Kotlin for Cross‑Platform Development
Kotlin has graduated from being ‘just an alternative to Java’ into a strategic cornerstone for efficient, scalable software delivery in the multi-device era.
DevOps Meets Blazor in 2025: Streamlining .NET Web App Delivery for the Future
Blazor has become a mature, go-to technology for modern enterprise-grade .NET web apps, especially for teams already invested in Microsoft’s ecosystem.
Beyond the Firewall: Achieving True Observability in the Era of Hybrid Infrastructure
At a time when hybrid infrastructure is the norm and internet dependencies are unavoidable, achieving true observability means embracing a broader view.
“Shove Left” – Dumping Downstream Tasks Onto Developers – A Recipe for Failure
Beware the “Shove Left” anti-pattern. Simply dumping downstream tasks onto developers without changing the system is a recipe for burnout, inefficiency and failure.
We’re Not Being Replaced. We’re Inventing What Comes Next, Including Ourselves.
After graduating with degrees in computer science and business in hand, I entered the software industry with the energy and optimism of someone ready to create great software. My first job wasn’t called “software developer”—I was hired as a systems engineer. And that title mattered, a lot more than I first realized. Right after being […]
Observability in Retail: How to Monitor and Manage Interactive Kiosk Fleets
Managing kiosks at scale creates visibility challenges. Centralized observability and proactive monitoring can help teams stay ahead of outages.
Emerging DevOps Trends: Security, Scalability and Sustainability
As DevOps continues to grow, rapid changes such as security, scalability and sustainability are at the forefront of these changes.
CI/CD Pipelines for Large Teams: How to Keep Velocity Without Breaking the Build
Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential for modern software teams, as there is now a need for fast feature delivery and high-velocity improvements. However, achieving high speed may be difficult without compromising reliability, as the process involves coordinating among development teams working on different features of the same application simultaneously, product complexity […]
Survey Surfaces Multiple Persistent DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of leaders based in North America finds 62% work for organizations that knowingly release insecure code to meet delivery deadlines.