Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Weekly DevOps jobs roundup, this week highlighting top roles in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Chicago, Charlotte and Seattle, with pay ranges and hiring trends to help DevOps pros advance careers.
Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues
A global survey of 700 software engineering practices published this week finds that thanks to increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, well over a third (35%) are either achieving daily or more frequent product deployments, with 36% deploying software multiple times per week. However, more than half (51%) also noted AI-generated code leads […]
Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste
A surprising AI experiment showed that feeding a model sloppy code didn’t just produce bad programming, it produced bad behavior. The result points to something philosophers and DevOps engineers have long understood: Character, culture and incentives shape systems far more than rules alone.
JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents
JetBrains has launched a new “agentic” tooling stack that pairs a multi‑agent development environment, Air, with a standalone, LLM‑agnostic coding agent, Junie CLI. If you know JetBrains, you probably know it for Kotlin, the statically typed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) language used mostly for Android development, or for its well-known integrated development environments (IDEs), such […]
The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It
Observability has always had a data quality problem. AI coding agents just made it catastrophically worse. Shimmy sits down with the co-founders of Sawmills to dig into why unmanaged telemetry is the unglamorous DevOps crisis that is quietly killing budgets — and what an agentic telemetry management platform actually does about it.
Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop
Google’s latest Gemini Code Assist updates focus on workflow, not hype: Agent Mode with Auto Approve, inline diffs, a Context Drawer, custom commands, Finish Changes, and Outlines streamline how developers review, trust, and integrate AI-generated code in VS Code and IntelliJ.
Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment
Microsoft’s new Azure Skills Plugin closes the gap between AI-written code and production deployments by packaging expert Azure knowledge as executable skills, backed by MCP servers for real infrastructure actions and AI workflows—bringing guardrails, consistency, and speed to DevOps and platform teams.
Anthropic Code Review Dispatches Agent Teams to Catch the Bugs That Skim Reads Miss
Anthropic Code Review dispatches agent teams to find bugs in PRs. Multi-agent analysis, severity ranking, and inline fixes for Teams and Enterprise.
Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI
An analysis of 2,000 organizations worldwide finds that historically lower performing software engineering teams are seeing nearly a 50% improvement in lead time to delivery, a four times greater rate of improvement over higher performing teams that have adopted AI coding tools. Conducted by Plandek, a provider of a developer productivity intelligence platform, the report […]
VS Code Is Becoming an Agent Control Plane — and Most Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet
VS Code 1.110 ships agent plugins, hooks, and persistent memory. Microsoft is embedding control plane primitives into the IDE for AI agent governance.
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent for Jira Connects Planning to Pull Requests Without Leaving Your Workflow
GitHub Copilot, the coding agent, now integrates with Jira. Assign issues to Copilot and get draft PRs — no context switching between planning and code.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Latest DevOps Jobs report highlights opportunities at Lenovo, IBM, Yale and Weights & Measures. Find out more here.
Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI
A global survey of 820 IT decision makers and DevOps practitioners finds that half of respondents (53%) report that developers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) are now authoring more tests directly. Conducted by Perforce, that shift also appears to be enabling a similar percentage of organizations (55%) to provide quality assurance (QA) teams […]
Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues
Codenotary is previewing a software-as–a-service (SaaS) platform that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents it has developed to autonomously detect, prioritize, and fix security, configuration, and performance issues. Company CEO Moshe Bar said the Codenotary Trust platform also enables continuous vulnerability tracking at both the Linux operating system and application level. Once an issue is detected, […]
Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI
Sonar this week launched an Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) framework that promises to modernize continuous integration (CI) in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) coding. Announced at an online Sonar Summit, the AC/DC framework incorporates multiple tools and platforms the company has developed to better secure software supply chains, including now in beta Sonar […]
Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries
Learn how Chainguard is strengthening software supply chains by expanding its secure repository of Java, JavaScript, and Python libraries, enabling DevOps teams to access components compliant with SLSA framework standards.
N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data
A group of more than two dozen malicious npm packages used to steal secrets and credentials from software developers has all the hallmarks – from infrastructure to operations – of Famous Chollima, the North Korean nation-state actor linked to the ongoing high-profile Contagious Interview scam. Threat researchers with Socket and Kieran Miyamoto of the DPRK […]
Eclipse Foundation Extends Scope and Reach of Open VSX Registry
The Eclipse Foundation launches a new framework for the Open VSX Registry, enhancing security features and transitioning to a hybrid architecture. With support from AI tool provider Cursor, this initiative aims to promote safer software supply chains.
Microsoft Executives Warn AI Could Limit the Developer Talent Pipeline
Generative AI is transforming software development at remarkable speed. But in a new paper written by two Microsoft executives, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman, VP of the developer community, argue that the AI technology also risks eroding the profession’s training pipeline. In their paper, Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI, published in […]
ControlMonkey Extends IaC Automation Reach to Restore Network Services
ControlMonkey has extended its platform for automating infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to add an ability to reprovision network services following a disruption in service. Company CEO Aharon Twizer said this extension to the Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery platform, which the company launched last year, makes it possible to use Terraform code to programmatically reconfigure networking services among others […]
Postman Adds Ability to Invoke API Code From Within Git Workflows
Discover how Postman’s new feature allows software engineering teams to manage API specifications, collections, and environments directly from Git repositories, simplifying workflows for AI agents in the development process.
Google ADK Opens the Door to AI Agents That Work Inside Your DevOps Toolchain
Google ADK adds integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Jira, MongoDB, and seven observability tools. AI agents can now work inside your DevOps toolchain.
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 […]