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OpenAI Bolsters AI Coding with Acquisition of Python Toolmaker Astral
Jon Swartz | | Anthropic, Astral, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cybersecurity, google, health care, I/O, Jony Ive, open-source developer tools, OpenAI, Promptfoo, Python, Sam Altman, software engineers, TorchOpenAI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral, the startup behind some of Python community’s most popular open-source developer tools. The acquisition marks further escalation in the rapidly ...
Java 26 Arrives With AI Integration and a New Ecosystem Portfolio — What It Means for DevOps Teams
Tom Smith | | agentic development, Ahead-of-Time Object Caching, AI workloads, cloud-native Java, concurrency, Embabel, enterprise devops, G1 GC, Helidon, HPKE, HTTP/3, integrity by default, Java 26, Java Verified Portfolio, JavaFX, JavaOne 2026., JEP 500, JEP 516, JEP 517, JEP 522, JEP 524, JEP 525, JVM, JVP, LangChain4j, model integration, OCI, Oracle, Oracle Code Assist, PEM standardization, performance tuning, post-quantum JAR signing, security posture, startup performance, Structured Concurrency, supply chain, VS Code Java extension, ZGCOverview of Java 26 emphasizing performance, concurrency, security, HTTP/3, and the new Java Verified Portfolio—positioning the JVM as a supported infrastructure layer for enterprise AI workloads and easing DevOps modernization of large ...
When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance
Alan Shimel | | AI code generation, AI-assisted development, apprenticeship, architecture, code governance, code oversight, democratization of coding, developer productivity, developer supervision, end of programming myth, governance era, industrialized programming, integration risk, maintainability, operations, security risk, software reliability, systems thinking, technical debt, validationAI agents can now generate in minutes what once took teams weeks, but the real shift is not faster coding. It is the collapse of code scarcity. As software production becomes industrialized, ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Mike Vizard | | career advancement, Cloud Security, devops engineer, devops jobs, hiring trends, job roundup, remote-friendly, Salaries, senior roles, SRE, tech hiring, weekly jobs reportWeekly 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 ...
Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste
Alan Shimel | | Accelerate, accountability, AI alignment, AI Governance, behavioral generalization, blameless postmortems, character in AI, constitutional alignment, Culture Change, devops, emergent misalignment, ethical AI, guardrails, incentive design, incentives, insecure code, interdisciplinary alignment, model disposition, model governance, moral behavior, safety engineering, site reliability engineering, training data culture, training pipelines, trustworthiness, virtuesA 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: ...
The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It
Alan Shimel | | agentic telemetry, AI in development, AIOps, APM (Application Performance Management), CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), data management, data quality, devops, instrumentation, Logging Standards, observability, Sawmills, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, software engineering, technology innovation, telemetry management, Telemetry OptimizationObservability 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 ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Mike Vizard | | careers, devops engineer, devops jobs, jobs, jobs report, Platform Engineer, project managerLatest DevOps Jobs report highlights opportunities at Lenovo, IBM, Yale and Weights & Measures. Find out more here ...
Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries
Mike Vizard | | AI agents, application security, dependency layer, devops best practices, DevSecOps practices, Open Source Security Foundation, open source vulnerabilities, secure open source libraries, secure repositories, SLSA framework, software artifacts, software builds, Software Supply Chain SecurityLearn 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
Jeff Burt | | Contagious Interview, Famous Chollima, infostealer, linux, macOS, malicious npm packages, Microsoft Windows, Pastebin, remote access trojan (RAT), Socket, software developers, typosquattingA 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, ...
Eclipse Foundation Extends Scope and Reach of Open VSX Registry
Mike Vizard | | AI coding tools, application development, AWS, developer tools, digital sovereignty, encryption, exposed credentials, extension name spoofing, funding model, malicious pattern detection, multi-region architecture, namespace impersonation, rate limiting, security infrastructure, software security, Software Supply Chain, trusted environments.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 ...
Postman Adds Ability to Invoke API Code From Within Git Workflows
Mike Vizard | | AI agents, AI integration, API catalog, API management, API specifications, automation, code visibility, developer productivity, developer tools, Git repositories, IT environment, rogue APIs, software engineering, State of the API Report, workflow efficiencyDiscover 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 ...
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 ...
