From Automation to Autonomy: What AIOps Actually Looks Like Today
For years, engineering leaders have been promised that automation would shrink operational work. CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, chatbots and DevOps tooling were supposed to mean reduced tickets, fewer incidents and fewer 3 a.m. pages. Instead, operational load has exploded. Systems are more distributed, dependencies are more tangled and customer expectations are less forgiving. What’s changed recently […]
Making CI/CD Pipelines Truly Autonomous — Safe and Observability-Driven Workflows With TypeScript, Python and Contract-First API Testing
Learn how to design safe, observable, and autonomous CI/CD pipelines using contract-first API testing, TypeScript for contract safety, Python for orchestration, and observability-driven decision making.
Performance Engineering Analytics: Optimizing DevOps Pipelines Through Data Insights
Explore how performance engineering analytics use data insights to optimize DevOps pipelines, improve system reliability, accelerate delivery, and enhance overall application performance.
Survey Sees Growing Interest in Switching Observability Platforms
A survey of 100 VP+ IT decision-makers published today finds 62% plan to increase spending on observability initiatives over the next 12 to 24 months, with only 4% planning to decrease spending. Conducted by LogicMonitor, a provider of a monitoring and observability platform, the survey also finds more than two-thirds (67%) are very likely or […]
How Small Engineering Teams Can Improve Reliability Without Adding Process Overhead
Modern software teams are under constant pressure to ship faster while maintaining reliability. For small engineering teams, this balance can feel especially difficult. Limited resources, tight deadlines, and shared responsibilities often mean that reliability improvements are postponed in favor of feature delivery. The good news is that improving reliability does not require heavy frameworks, additional […]
7 Cybersecurity Tips for 2026 No One Will Tell You About
Nothing about 2026 feels stable anymore, especially in security. Attacks move faster than your monitoring stack, AI tools leak data behind your back and everyday convenience apps quietly turn into intrusion points. The biggest threats aren’t the ones trending in conference talks but the subtle, boring habits that have crept into your workflow without anyone noticing. Once you start paying […]
Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Settings: Leveraging IoT and DevOps Practices for Maximum Uptime
In modern industry, keeping machines running nonstop is a challenge. Systems grow more complex each year, yet expectations for reliability never relax. Predictive maintenance has emerged as one of the most effective ways to meet that challenge, allowing teams to see trouble coming before it causes a shutdown. The approach depends heavily on two complementary […]
Attackers Testing New Strain of Shai-Hulud on npm: Aikido
Threat actors behind the virulent Shai-Hulud worm that wreaked havoc in open npm repositories toward the end of 2025 apparently are trying out a new strain that comes with slight modifications. Security researchers with Aikido Security, who have been tracking Shai-Hulud for months, wrote in a report that was updated January 2 that there doesn’t […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com highlights the New Year’s top DevOps job opportunities with competitive salaries from companies such as Microsoft and Adobe.
AI is the new Junior Engineer
Real AI gains don’t come from hype or pilots. They come from teams with strong teaching, mentoring and engineering culture already in place.
Best of 2025: How AI Agents are Reshaping the Developer Experience
AI agents are helping to shift developers’ focus from long hours of manual coding to high-value problem-solving, architecture and decision-making processes.
Best of 2025: GitLab Extends Scope and Reach of Core CI/CD Platform
GitLab Inc. has updated its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to natively provide more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, along with built-in software artifact management capabilities and more robust security tools.
Best of 2025: CloudBees Moves to Unify Management of Multiple DevOps Platforms
CloudBees today launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for centralizing the management of multiple DevOps environments, including GitHub, GitLab and the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.
Best of 2025: GitHub Action Compromise Risks Data Leaks for 23,000 Repositories
The attacker introduced malicious Python code that would expose secrets like authentication credentials in public repositories.
Best of 2025: Integrating Generative AI Into DevOps Pipelines
Generative AI, a subset of AI, is a new technology that can create content in different forms, such as text, images and videos. Integrating generative AI into DevOps practices can benefit an organization’s business processes. This article addresses the advantages, obstacles and opportunities concerning blending and integrating generative AI with DevOps. Understanding the Problem Organizations […]
Best of 2025: The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. Yet somehow, the infrastructure team is supposed to scale magically to keep up. Let’s be […]
Best of 2025: Survey: AI Tools are Increasing Amount of Bad Code Needing to be Fixed
Survey findings include respondents noted that AI tools are increasing the blast radius of the amount of bad code that needs to be debugged.
Best of 2025: DevOps Evolution: From Movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era
DevOps isn’t dying – it’s evolving. That’s the perspective of Andi Grabner, who recently transitioned from DevOps Activist to Platform Engineering Advocate at Dynatrace. “The idea of DevOps is transforming. I agree that it has fulfilled its purpose, but the purpose is not over. It just shifts,” says Grabner. After nearly 20 years of DevOps, […]
Best of 2025: AI-Powered DevOps: Transforming CI/CD Pipelines for Intelligent Automation
DevOps practices are the core of contemporary organizational activities. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into DevOps practices can transform an organization’s mode of operations. Companies have increased efficiency in developing, testing and deploying software with this integration. Automating repetitive tasks eliminates the need for human supervision while enhancing reliability, scalability and efficiency. […]
Best of 2025: AI Coding: New Research Shows Even the Best Models Struggle With Real-World Software Engineering
As AI increasingly permeates the software development landscape, new research from OpenAI offers sobering insights into the current limitations of even the most advanced AI coding assistants. The benchmark study, “SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?” presents evidence that despite rapid advances, today’s frontier AI models still fall short […]
Best of 2025: GitHub Copilot Evolves: Agent Mode and Multi-Model Support Transform DevOps Workflows
GitHub Copilot adds Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users, bringing agentic capabilities and multi-model choice that will revolutionize DevOps workflows.
Best of 2025: AI in Software Development: Productivity at the Cost of Code Quality?
New research analyzing 153 million lines of code reveals AI tools may accelerate development but potentially at the expense of maintainable, quality code.
Best of 2025: Five Trends That Will Drive Software Development in 2025
In 2025, developers will broaden the scope of how they use AI with promising new applications for reducing technical debt and improving security.