Microsoft Infuses AI into DevOps Workflows
Microsoft this week added a bevy of tools to its portfolio that infuses generative artificial intelligence (AI) into DevOps workflows.
OpenSSF Siren: Security for One, Security for All
The OpenSSF Siren is a fresh, new take on ye old security mailing list.
Harness Survey Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges
A survey of 500 software engineering leaders (38%) and practitioners finds nearly half reporting they can’t release code to production without risking failures, with 39% noting their code fails to push to production at least half the time.
GitLab Readies Enterprise Edition of AI Tools for DevOps
GitLab this week revealed that, in the coming months, it will add an enterprise edition of its artificial intelligence (AI) add-on for its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.
Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4
The new version of Rocky Linux includes security improvements, better cloud images, and the latest developer tools. All those features should interest any DevOps pro.
vFunction Adds Real-Time Observability and GenAI Tool to Modernization Platform
vFunction, the AI-driven architectural observability platform today added real-time observability and GenAI assistant. vFunction today added an ability to observe IT architectures in real-time to a platform that automatically converts monolithic application code into a set of microservices. In addition, vFunction has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that identifies issues and surfaces recommendations […]
Red Hat Plans to Add Policy-as-Code Tools to Ansible Platform
Red Hat is previewing a policy-as-code capability for the Ansible Automation Platform that promises to make it simpler to apply and enforce governance and compliance policies. Demonstrated at the Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2024 conference, Matthew Jones, chief architect for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, told conference attendees this capability would, for example, make […]
Survey Credits Engineering Teams With Keeping Lid on Cloud Costs
A CloudZero survey credits engineering teams with keeping cloud costs under control, but there’s still some room for improvement. A survey of 1,000 U.S. engineering and finance professionals working in organizations with 100 to 9,999 employees, that spent at least $500,000 annually on cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or […]
Sumo Logic Previews GenAI Tool to Improve DevSecOps Observability
Sumo Logic this week at the RSA Conference previewed a copilot that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for IT and cybersecurity professionals of varying levels of experience to derive benefits from its observability platform via a user interface (UI) the company is in the process of revamping. In addition, Sumo Logic […]
StarTree Makes Observability Case for Apache Pinot Database
StarTree broadly enhances its real-time database platform by adding query support for metrics, logs and traces. StarTree today made a case for becoming the foundation upon which observability is gained in IT environments by adding support for metrics, logs and traces to its real-time database platform delivered as a cloud service. In addition, the company […]
Oracle Plans to Apply Generative AI to Java and SQL
Oracle is developing a generative AI assistant that uses multiple LLMs to create Java and SQL code. Oracle Code Assist will provide expert, opinionated feedback for code snippets, dependency analysis, error mitigation alternatives, test cases, annotation, summarization and documentation.
What OpenTofu 1.7 Means for DevSecOps
With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a DevOps job? Look at these openings at Capital One, Sherwin Williams, Marriott International and more
Atlassian Taps AI to Automate Software Engineering Workflows
Atlassian acquired Optic, which uses OpenAPI to track API changes across a continuous integration pipeline. It also announced a new AI tool.
Postman Makes AI Tool for API Management Platform Available
Postman today generally made available a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for its platform for building and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) that automatically creates tests and documentation. Announced at a POST/CON 2024 conference, Postbot is included with version 11 of the Postman platform which also adds workspaces that make it simpler for software engineering […]
GitHub Preview of Copilot Workspaces Advances AI Agenda
GitHub this week made available a formal technical preview of an approach to building software that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to complete tasks on behalf of a software engineering team. Rather than simply generating code for developers, GitHub Copilot Workspace is leveraging more advanced reasoning engine capabilities that are being added to large language […]
Snyk Adds Second ASPM Tool to Portfolio
Today, Snyk made available an edition of its application security posture management (ASPM) tool for assessing application risks that provides more context into how code has been written and its role within the application environment. Manoj Nair, chief product officer for Snyk, said Snyk AppRisk Pro leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to provide […]
Spotify to Provide Opinionated Instance of Backstage IDP
Backstage helps large teams document their infrastructure and services. This extends the open source version.
Copado Applies Generative AI to Salesforce Application Testing
Copado’s genAI tool automates testing in Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) application environments.
IBM Confirms: It’s Buying HashiCorp
Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM.
Embrace Adds Support for OpenTelemetry to Instrument Mobile Applications
Embrace revealed today it is adding support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software to its software development kits (SDKs) that enable observability of iOS and Android applications. Andrew Tunall, head of product for Embrace, said that as more DevOps teams standardize on OpenTelemetry to collect telemetry data from applications, there is a growing requirement for […]
Tricentis Taps Generative AI to Automate Application Testing
Tricentis is adding AI assistants to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create tests.
Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork.