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Massive VS Code Secrets Leak Puts Focus on Extensions, AI: Wiz
Researchers with cybersecurity firm Wiz earlier this year discovered, almost by chance, a significant supply chain risk and massive secrets leak in the Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX marketplaces that they said ...
Grafana Labs Extends AI Capabilities of Observability Platform
Mike Vizard | | Adaptive Profiles, Adaptive Traces, AI for IT operations, AI in DevOps, AI incident management, AI observability, AI-driven observability, AIOps, Bring Your Own Cloud, BYOC, democratizing observability, DoD IL5, Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph, Grafana ObservabilityCON 2025, incident remediation AI, IT root cause analysis, OpenTelemetry, RCA Workbench, root cause analysis, telemetry data analysisGrafana Labs this week made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Grafana Assistant, for its namesake dashboard in addition to previewing Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI incident management tool that ...
Atlassian Makes AI Coding Agent Generally Available
Mike Vizard | | AI code review, AI coding agent, AI DevOps tools, AI for software development, AI in CI/CD, AI project planning, AI software orchestration, Anthropic MCP, Atlassian AI, Atlassian Compass, Atlassian Team 25, devops automation, DX engineering metrics, Jira integration, Model Context ProtocolAtlassian launches Rovo Dev, an AI coding agent for writing, reviewing, and planning code, bundled with Bitbucket, Compass, and DX in the new Software Collection ...
PagerDuty Adds Suite of AI Agents to IT Management Platform
Mike Vizard | | AI automation in IT operations, AI for DevOps teams, AI in DevOps, AI site reliability engineer, AI workflow automation, AI-driven reliability engineering, AI-powered runbooks, AIOps platforms, DevOps productivity, IT incident management, IT operations automation, Model Context Protocol MCP, reducing IT burnoutPagerDuty’s new AI agents — Insights, SRE, Scribe and Shift — aim to automate IT operations, reduce burnout, and transform DevOps workflows at scale ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Mike Vizard | | AI DevOps, Cloud Engineering, DevOps careers, DevOps hiring, devops jobs, DevOps market insights, DevOps professionals, devsecops, job report, Remote DevOps, tech salariesA weekly DevOps Jobs Report featuring opportunities, salaries and insights into the DevOps job market from companies like NVIDIA and GEICO ...
Shortcut Adds AI Agent to Orchestrate Management of Software Development Projects
Mike Vizard | | AI agents for software development, AI in project tracking, AI project management, AI-powered product management, devops automation, Jira alternative, natural language to project plans, software engineering productivity, workflow orchestrationShortcut this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is capable of orchestrating the planning, tracking and coordination of software projects. Company CEO Kurt Schrader said the Korey agent takes ideas ...
env zero Revamps Infrastructure Automation Platform for AI Era
Mike Vizard | | AI agents, cloud compliance, Cloud Governance Platform, Cloud Security, CloudFormation, devops automation, IaC, infrastructure as code, infrastructure automation, kubernetes, MCP, Model Context Protocol, policy as code, Static Code Analyzer Agent, TerragruntEnv Zero (formerly env0) has revamped its Cloud Governance Platform with AI and MCP support, including a new Static Code Analyzer Agent to streamline IaC governance, compliance, and security across tools like ...
Report: Microsoft, AWS and Google Atop Software Development Platform Heap
Mike Vizard | | AI in software development, application development, business value, competition in developer platforms, developer ecosystem, DevOps workflows, go-to-market execution, microsoft, platform innovation, Salesforce, Signal report, software development platforms, strategic vision, The Futurum GroupThe Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all ...
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.5: Built for Production Coding and Extended Autonomous Work
Tom Smith | | AI agents, AI coding, AI teammates, autonomous operation, code refactoring, computer use, Cybersecurity, developer tools, devops, financial services, legal workflows, SWE-Bench, vulnerability remediationAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets a new bar for coding, agentic tasks, and computer use, with 30+ hours of autonomous operation. Early adopters report major gains in accuracy, security, and long-horizon development ...
Harness Acquires Qwiet AI to Gain Code Testing Tool
Harness has acquired Qwiet AI (formerly ShiftLeft) to integrate AI-driven application security directly into its DevOps platform. By combining Qwiet AI’s Code Property Graph technology with Harness’s AI agents and Traceable’s API ...
DORA 2025: Faster, But Are We Any Better?
Jenn Yarnold | | AI-assisted software development, amplification, culture & practices, developer productivity, DORA research, organizational systems, research report, strategic AI investmentThe 2025 DORA Report — The State of AI-assisted Software Development by DORA / Google Cloud — introduces the DORA AI Capabilities Model, arguing that AI functions best as an amplifier of ...
HashiCorp Embraces Agentic AI to Streamline Management of IT
Mike Vizard | | HashiCorp Cloud Platform HCP, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), IT infrastructure lifecycle management, Model Context Protocol MCP server, Project infragraph, secrets management, Vault Enterprise 1.21, zero trust automationHashiCorp today added a slew of updates to its platform for managing and securing IT infrastructure, including integration with multiple automation frameworks and a preview of an ability to use artificial intelligence ...
