Newly Appointed CloudBees CEO Charts Agentic AI Engineering Course
The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that moves beyond human-centric tooling. Plassnig, who earlier this month succeeded Anuj Kapur, joins CloudBees from Immuta, a provider of a data security and governance platform, […]
IaC Isn’t Dying. AI Makes it More Important
AI-generated infrastructure code is arriving faster than most organizations can absorb it. The organizations that invested in platform quality first are the ones pulling ahead. Every few years, someone declares that Infrastructure as Code is dead. The arguments tend to “sidecar” the hype cycle. First, complexity, then containers, then Kubernetes, then serverless. Now it’s AI’s […]
Autonomous AWS Agent Automates Modernization of Codebases
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that has been trained to continuously modernize codebases. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the AI agent is being embedded into AWS Transform, the application modernization service AWS launched last year. Sriram Devanathan, director of AWS Transform, said the […]
Why AI Testing Must Live Inside Your CI/CD Pipeline
Here is a situation most engineering leaders recognize. You roll out AI coding tools. Features ship faster. Developers are more productive. Then, a few months in, you realize something unexpected: the engineers you most wanted to free up are busier than ever. They are reviewing PRs, firefighting regressions, juggling a dozen half-shipped features and the […]
AWS Continuum Service Employs AI to Secure Software Supply Chains
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a service that expands the scope of the artificial intelligence (AI) tools it provides to secure code to include an agent that discovers, validates and prioritizes vulnerabilities that are then used to surface a remediation recommendation. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the AWS Continuum service also adds […]
GitHub Actions Gets Serious About Self-Hosted Runner Versions
GitHub is resuming enforcement of minimum version requirements for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners — and this time, the deadlines are firm. After a rocky start that included multiple delays and a temporary pause earlier this year, GitHub has published a clear enforcement timeline for both GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. […]
Why Endpoint Protection Matters More than Ever in CI/CD Environments
CI/CD environments depend on far more than repositories and deployment infrastructure. Developer endpoints hold sensitive data: cloud credentials, SSH keys, deployment permissions, direct access to internal systems. Endpoint security and control are part of daily operational risk management. Engineering teams are shifting more and more toward distributed workflows, so discussions around CI/CD security include the […]
Datadog Leverages AI to Extend Observability Reach Deeper into DevOps Workflows
Datadog this week significantly extended the reach of its Bits artificial intelligence (AI) framework to enable DevOps teams to automatically discover and resolve issues based on the telemetry data collected by its observability platform. Announced at the company’s DASH 2026 conference, Datadog is now embedding an AI coding tool, dubbed Bits Code, across its entire […]
GitLab Previews Revamped DevOps Platform for the Agentic AI Era
At Transcend 2026, GitLab launched updates to optimize its DevOps platform for AI-generated code, featuring Next Gen Source Code Management, GitLab Orbit, and an AI Governance framework.
When the Structure Becomes the Culture
Why micro teams and rotation reshape culture, not just throughput, in modern SRE. Most SRE leaders design teams around the systems they own. We designed ours around movement. We introduced micro teams expecting a throughput story: smaller groups, tighter scope, faster work. Some of that arrived. What we had not budgeted for was how much […]
The Flow Illusion: Why Transformation Feels Like Theatre
You’ve invested in the tools. Your teams have dashboards that track cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. You’ve likely even built a sophisticated, probabilistic roadmap. Yet, despite the data, it feels like theatre. The moment the workshop ends, that roadmap becomes a static slide deck, and teams remain paralyzed, waiting for you to update […]
Flowtopia Live 2026: Engineering the Frictionfree Enterprise
If your goals are accelerating flow and maximizing value in your organization, consider grabbing yourself a ticket to this year’s Flowtopia Live on Wednesday, June 24th. Flowtopia is a community of value stream practitioners, and this is our annual online jamboree where we gather to share, learn, and celebrate all things flow-related. Over 12 hours, […]
Broadcom Aims to Better Secure Spring Applications in the AI Era
Broadcom today released a raft of updates to the open source Spring framework for building Java applications to primarily address a wave of vulnerabilities discovered by researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. At the same time, Broadcom is also adding a managed service through which organizations can secure thousands of Spring dependencies for organizations building […]
AI Is Accelerating DevOps, Poor Integrations Are Slowing It Down
As AI speeds up software delivery, the real bottleneck isn’t scanning or CI. It’s how safely and predictably change moves across tools, teams, and companies. Something strange is happening in DevOps right now. AI copilots are writing code, generating tests, triaging incidents, and even summarizing pull requests before a human looks at them. The tooling […]
Secure Code Warrior Leverages AI to Extend DevSecOps Training Reach
Secure Code Warrior this week extended the capability of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent to make it possible to surface relevant training insights in real time as application developers are writing code. Announced at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, the Adaptive Learning capability added to the company’s learning platform detects which AI tools […]
IronWorm Malware Shares Shai-Hulud Traits, Takes Threat to ‘Next Level’
Open source software developers continue to come under attack, with the latest threat being a custom malware that shares many of the attributes of the notorious Shai-Hulud self-propagating worm but comes with functions that make it more difficult for defenders to detect and to reverse engineer. Dubbed “IronWorm,” the infostealer is built in the Rust […]
Latest OpenTofu Release Simplifies Configuration Updates
The latest update to the OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool is making it simpler to update and refactor configurations without having to rework the entire codebase. Version 1.12.0 of OpenTofu has added a destroy = false lifecycle option that enables DevOps engineers to drop an object from state without issuing a destroy application programming interface (API) […]
Shai-Hulud Clone ‘Miasma’ Compromises 32 Red Hat npm Packages
The threat group behind the notorious Mini Shai-Hulud worm last month put the complete source code for the malware into a GitHub repository, essentially open sourcing the threat so that other bad actors can create their own variants. GitHub reportedly took down the repository shortly after it appeared, but the damage was already done, with […]
Postman Adds AI Agent to Automate API Development and Governance
Postman added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its portfolio of tools and platforms for building and governing application programming interfaces (APIs) that can autonomously perform tasks ranging from development and documentation to exploration and setting up integrations with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) environments. Company CEO Abhinav Asthana said the AI Engineer significantly reduces the […]
AI Is Changing How We Write Infrastructure, But It’s Not Solving How We Control It
Over the past year, AI has fundamentally changed how software is written. Infrastructure code is no exception. Tasks that once required deep familiarity with tools, syntax, and workflows can now be handled through natural language. Engineers are no longer starting from a blank file. In many cases, reviewing and modifying code generated for them has […]
The End of Alert Fatigue: How AI-Powered Observability is Transforming SRE Teams in 2026
Alert fatigue among Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams has reached a breaking point, with responders drowning in thousands of weekly notifications where only 3% genuinely warrant attention. This massive volume of noise—driven by fragmented monitoring tools and rigid, threshold-based alerting—stifles innovation, spikes on-call burnout, and compromises system reliability. Fortunately, AI-powered observability and AIOps platforms are transforming incident management. By unifying telemetry across metrics, logs, and traces, intelligent systems can correlate signals, execute automated root cause analysis, and trigger self-healing remediation. This shift reduces alert volumes by up to 95% and slashes mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 40–58%, allowing engineers to pivot from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering.
JFrog Report Surfaces Need for Rapid DevSecOps Change in AI Era
A report published by JFrog finds that cybercriminals are now increasingly targeting the artificial intelligence (AI) tools and platforms used by application development teams. Based on an analysis of 18.2 billion artifacts managed via the JFrog Platform, security researchers discovered 969 AI agent skills carrying high-impact payloads in addition to 495 malicious AI models on […]
On-Call: The Silent Force Shaping Engineering Culture
There is a silent force shaping engineering culture inside every technology organization. It affects productivity, team morale, psychological safety, and long-term retention. And yet, it is rarely discussed in executive meetings or reflected in meaningful KPIs. That force is on-call. On-call is one of the most direct touchpoints engineers have with the reality of the […]