Upgrade SRE Performance Management With AI
In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could analyze application and infrastructure performance data to identify optimization opportunities and predict capacity requirements. In this blog, I explain in more detail how AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the pillar that I call performance management […]
New Relic Adds App Security Testing Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic made available a public preview of an application security testing tool that will be integrated into its observability platform.
Harnessing AI for Automated and Toil-Free SRE
AI not only reduces toil but also contributes to improving system reliability, efficiency and scalability, forming a critical part of modern SRE practices.
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.
Postman Acquires Akita Software to Gain API Observability
Postman has acquired Akita Software to gain access to a platform for monitoring and observing application programming interfaces (APIs).
Webb.ai Launches AI-Based Continuous Root Cause Analysis
Webb.ai opened an early access program for a Continuous Automated Root Cause Analysis platform that uses AI combined with a knowledge graph to dynamically keep track of and analyze changes to IT environments.
The Role of AI in ITSM: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
In the complex landscape of ITSM, AI is emerging as a transformative force, enabling organizations to manage their systems with unprecedented precision and proactivity.
Splunk Adds Hub to Extend Observability to Edge Computing Platforms
Splunk’s Edge Hub ingests data from sensors, industrial equipment and internet-of-things (IoT) platforms so that it can be analyzed alongside data collected from IT environments.
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
In this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words.
JFrog Adds Curation Capability for Open Source Software Components
JFrog is adding a curation capability for open source software that will use metadata generated by binaries to identify malicious packages and software components with licensing issues.
BigPanda Extends AIOps Platform to Embrace Generative AI
BigPanda added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to analyze incidents surfaced by its AI for IT operations (AIOps) platform.
Roadie Adds Scorecard Tool to Backstage SaaS Platform
Roadie today made generally available a tool that automatically tracks and reports how software development teams are performing against engineering standards defined by a DevOps team. The Tech Insights tool is an addition to Roadie’s implementation of the open source Backstage developer portal and is delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Roadie CEO David Tuite […]
Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.
Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE With AI-Engineered Tools
In my blog Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations published last year, I classified site reliability engineering (SRE) into nine pillars of SRE practices—a comprehensive framework that covers the full scope of SRE practices. This nine pillars SRE framework is consistent with the SRE blueprint published by the DevOps Institute. Each of these pillars […]
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale?
How AI Transforms DevOps Infrastructure
AI can help manage cloud resources for DevOps by predicting future needs based on usage trends and automatically adjusting resources to optimize cost and performance.
Reimagining CI/CD: AI-Engineered Continuous Integration
AI has the potential to greatly improve the efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness of DevOps continuous integration (CI) practices.
Tabnine Unveils Beta of Generative AI Automated Testing Tool
Tabnine this week made available in beta a tool that enables developers to use natural language to interact with the artificial intelligence (AI) models embedded within its test automation platform. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems for Tabnine, said Tabnine Chat extends generative AI capabilities the company developed to make it simpler for developers to […]
How AI Addresses DevOps Monitoring and Observability Challenges
AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.
Applitools Acquires Preflight to Further Apply AI to App Testing
Applitools acquired Preflight, which provides a low-code automation platform that makes it possible for developers to write their own tests.
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
Harnessing AI in Continuous Delivery and Deployment
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are automatically built, tested and prepared for release to production; this may be followed by continuous deployment where an approved release is automatically deployed to the production environment. The […]
HashiCorp Acquires BluBracket to Extend Secrets Management Reach
HashiCorp this week acquired BluBracket to add a set of static secrets discovery tools to its portfolio.