IBM Develops AI Agents to Automate Software Engineering Tasks
IBM Research is testing a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that both discovers bugs in code found in a GitHub repository and recommendations to remediate them.
Survey Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Gains
A survey of 106 leaders and practitioners involved in software supply chain security finds more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) work for organizations that have made software supply chain security a significant or top (24%) priority.
Symbiotic Security Platform Discovers Security Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
Symbiotic Security emerged from stealth this week to launch a namesake platform that enables application developers to discover and remediate vulnerabilities and other errors in real-time as code is being written.
Kloudfuse Adds Raft of Additional Capabilities to Unify Observability
Kloudfuse today updated its namesake observability platform to add support for continuous profiling and real user monitoring (RUM) along with additional analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Four Steps to Balance Agility and Security in DevSecOps
Balancing agility and security in DevSecOps is achievable with the right mix of automation, collaboration and continuous feedback. By embedding security into agile processes, organizations can deliver software that is both fast and secure, meeting the demands of today’s fast-paced tech environment.
Observability in 2030: A Practitioner’s Wishlist
Observability in 2030 will require integrated telemetry across layers, events for context, and decoupling telemetry collection from analysis, ensuring seamless multi-signal observability.
Developer Experience Has Always Been a Profit Story
The true business value of providing a best-in-class developer experience is not being articulated enough, and that is — improved developer experience is a profit driver, not a cost center.
Incredibuild Acquires Garden to Streamline Continuous Integration
Incredibuild this week revealed it has acquired Garden, a provider of an open-source framework that makes it simpler to track the relationships between software components as DevOps teams build applications. Founded in 2018, Garden has been primarily focused on eliminating bottlenecks within continuous integration (CI) pipelines that slow the pace of application development and waste […]
Goodbye, Git-Centricity: Getting to Green in an AI-Powered World
For decades in the software industry, we have focused on testing our applications under the reassuring streetlight of GitOps. It made sense in theory: Wait for changes to the codebase made by engineers, then trigger a re-test of your code. If your tests pass, you are good to go.
Ghosts in the Machine: How AI Agents Will Take Over DevOps
AI agents can transform DevOps practices, leading to more robust, efficient and cost-effective operations while freeing human engineers to focus on higher-level strategic tasks and innovation.
Breaking Free From the Dead Zone: Automating DevOps Shifts for Scalable Success
When building software, especially SaaS, sticking to manual processes in DevOps is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Manual processes not only slow down operations but also open the door to mistakes that can escalate into significant problems. This tricky spot, where there’s not enough automation and too much room for human error, isn’t […]
Broadcom Strengthens Case for Integrated VCF Platform
Broadcom today revealed it is adding a raft of additional capabilities to the optional portfolio of services it makes available on top of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including a module that makes it simpler to deploy databases on top of instances of Kubernetes that are integrated with the VMware virtual machine platform.
Five 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 […]
New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.
DataStax Aims to Reduce Friction by Extending Support for GitHub Copilot
DataStax this week at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference revealed it has extended its support for the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to now include the ability to write data to its Astra databases-as-service (DBaaS) platform based on the open-source Cassandra database.
Survey: IT Teams Spend About a Third of Time Responding to Disruptions
A global survey of 1,700 IT professionals finds on average teams are grappling with 280 hours of median annual downtime a year, which at 12 hours of a 40-hour work week equates to about 30% of their time. Conducted by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) on behalf of New Relic, the most common causes of downtime […]
Microsoft Engineers Highlight Git Repository Bloat Flaw
A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requirements that result.
Survey Shines Spotlight on Inability to Keep Application Secrets
A global survey of 1,000 IT leaders from organizations with more than 500 employees published today finds that 79% have experienced or are aware of secrets leaking within their organization.
GitHub Extends Reach and Scope of Generative AI Ambitions
GitHub today revealed it is adding support for both the Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Anthropic and the Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM from Google to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing code.
Riveting Repositories: JFrog GitHub Unification Leaps Onward
Repositories rarely rivet and rope themselves together quite like the union that has been forming between JFrog and GitHub. The company known for its bullfrog-themed universal repository manager for software application artifacts spanning dependencies, binaries and configuration files continues to forge a partnership with the widely popular web-based developer code collaboration platform. The suggestion from […]
Instabug Leverages Generative AI to Automatically Fix Mobile Applications
Instabug today revealed it has added an ability to both analyze mobile application crash report data and source code, to better pinpoint the root cause of issues accurately, which it then feeds into a proprietary generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, dubbed SmartResolve, that automatically generates the code needed to resolve it.
Tabnine Previews AI Agent to Review Code as Created
Tabnine today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that ensures code adheres to an organization’s policies and software development standards.