
Key Insights From the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey
Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey reveals insights into programming language and tooling preferences and the use of AI in the development workflow. Here’s what these trends could mean for DevOps.

Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.

Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale?

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]

FinOps Gaining Ground, But Progress is Slow
A CloudBolt survey found more than three-quarters of respondents said it will take two to three years to see real FinOps-driven results.

Tabnine Unveils Beta of Generative AI Automated Testing Tool
Tabnine this week made available in beta a tool that enables developers to use natural language to interact with the artificial intelligence (AI) models embedded within its test automation platform. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems for Tabnine, said Tabnine Chat extends generative AI capabilities the company developed to make it simpler for developers to […]

Applitools Acquires Preflight to Further Apply AI to App Testing
Applitools acquired Preflight, which provides a low-code automation platform that makes it possible for developers to write their own tests.

IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …

HashiCorp Acquires BluBracket to Extend Secrets Management Reach
HashiCorp this week acquired BluBracket to add a set of static secrets discovery tools to its portfolio.

Survey Surfaces Raft of Enterprise IT Challenges
Less than a third of enterprises are extremely confident that they have the right technology, processes and people in place to execute an effective approach to IT management.

Bionic Extends Application Security Posture Management Platform
Bionic this week added a pair of tools to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that make it simpler to triage threats based on severity and attach a risk score. Josh Cho, senior director of global systems engineering at Bionic, said the Bionic Signals and Business Risk Scoring tools ingest data from third-party security […]

Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept.

Mendix Embraces DevOps for Next Era of Low-Code App Development
Mendix’s low-code app dev platform added support for DevOps workflows and makes it simpler for developers to compose apps and embed AI capabilities.

OutSystems Embraces Generative AI to Speed App Dev
OutSystems, via a Project Morpheus initiative, intends to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to make it possible to automatically generate an application that developers will then use low-code tools to customize for specific use cases. In the meantime, the company is extending an existing alliance with Microsoft to provide a connector that integrates its […]

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]

Integral Makes Generative AI Code Review Tool Open Source
Integral this week launched an open source Robin AI project that leverages OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) platform to review code changes and provide constructive feedback.

Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.”

Noname Security Looks to Shift API Security Testing Left
Noname Security today made generally available an update to a tool for testing application programming interface (API) security that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to ensure APIs are secure. Filip Verloy, a field CTO for Noname Security, said Active Testing V2 is purposely designed to make it simpler to integrate API testing […]

Hasura Unfurls Data Delivery Network Based on GraphQL
At its HasuraCon 2023 conference today, Hasura launched a Data Delivery Network (DDN) based on a set of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) that makes it simpler to integrate distributed sources of data. In addition, Hasura is adding Hasura Schema Registry to streamline API governance using graph technology, a MongoDB connector, a Native Data Collector […]

System Initiative Employs Modeling to Reinvent DevOps
System Initiative (SI) released a private beta of a platform to reimagine how DevOps processes are constructed and maintained.

Cycloid Adds Templates to Simplify GitOps Workflows
Cycloid’s Bootstrap Stacks capability provides DevOps teams with the ability to build Git templates to define cloud computing environments.

Harness Brings Generative AI Capabilities to DevOps Workflows
Harness today added a raft of generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of a larger effort to reduce the level of manual toil that today conspires to create DevOps bottlenecks. The added generative AI capabilities include an AI Development Assistant (AIDA), which analyzes log files and correlates […]

Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform
Quali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the added governance tools will make it possible to enforce security, compliance and consumption policies as IT environments are launched using the automation blueprints […]
