The Integration Trap: When Your “Seamless” System Crashes at the Worst Possible Moment
Imagine this: You have just finished implementing a big, enterprise-level software. The project took months (or years), cost a fortune and required countless hours of work. But you did it! Now, it is finally time to reap the ROI from your investment. But guess what? You also have to deal with the consequences. Integration: A […]
AI in Government: Why Flexibility Matters More Than Ever
The early blooms of AI experimentation showed the new, promising ways of streamlining government operations. Now comes the real work of cultivating environments where AI can take root and thrive.
From One Big System to Many Small Ones: Our Microservices Story
Microservices offer flexibility, but they also introduce additional management complexities. Start small. Monitor everything. Plan for failure.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
The five DevOps job postings shared this week include opportunities at Hearst Media Services and the University of Chicago.
Why CI/CD Pipelines Break Zero-Trust: A Hidden Risk in Enterprise Automation
This article highlights a critical blind spot in pipeline security: The gap between job identity and runtime trust. Here’s how organizations can finally close it.
How Benchmarking Can Help Software Development Teams Achieve CISA’s “Secure by Design”
In April 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched its Secure by Design initiative, directing technology companies to ‘prioritize the security of customers as a core business requirement, rather than merely treating it as a technical feature’.
Grafana Labs Makes Bevy of Updates to Visualization Platform
Grafana Labs, this week at the GrafanaCON 2025 conference, revealed it is revamping its open source visualization platform to provide a more consistent set of application programming interfaces (API) and a JSON data schema to streamline integrations.
Developing Software That Solves Real-World Problems – A Technologist’s View
Solving real-world issues with software is not only about creating the biggest and the best system, but creating the right one.
Sumo Logic Previews AI Tool to Analyze Telemetry Data
Sumo Logic has created a prototype of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that creates text-based summaries from large volumes of log and telemetry data collected by its log analytics platform.
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): The Key to Agile and Automated Cloud Deployments
The move to using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for automated, reliable cloud deployments is a necessity in modern cloud computing.
From Tickets to Pipelines: Rethinking DevOps Through a Product Lens
Rather than viewing their work as a collection of isolated tasks, DevOps teams can begin to operate like product teams — designing and delivering platforms and tooling that add lasting value and improve the developer experience.
OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3 Billion
OpenAI is buying artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted coding tool Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion in its largest acquisition to date. The long-rumored deal, reported by Bloomberg News on Monday, should significantly boost ChatGPT’s coding functionality as well as put OpenAI in position to more effectively compete in the fledgling market for AI-powered […]
Pulumi Previews IDP to Manage Reusable Software Building Blocks
Pulumi today previewed an internal developer platform (IDP) through which DevOps and platform engineering teams will be able to access reusable building blocks that can be used to create templates and blueprints to build applications. Scheduled to be generally available later this year for self-hosted environments or via a software-as-service (SaaS) application, Pulumi IDP will […]
Causely Extends Reach of Observability to Grafana Dashboards
Causely, a provider of an observability platform based on causal artificial intelligence (AI) models, today revealed it is now adding support for open source Grafana dashboards. Announced at the GrafanaCon 2025 conference, this integration provides DevOps teams with an ability to surface root cause analysis within dashboards that are already widely used by many IT […]
Tricentis Looks to Further Automate Application Testing
Tricentis has extended a cloud-based testing service to make it easier to ensure that test cases are designed to continuously validate business workflows against mission-critical business objectives, not just technical functionalities. In addition, the latest version of Tricentis Tosca also makes it simpler to make use of reusable test step blocks using a set of […]
AI as the Architect’s Muse: Redefining Software Design in the Age of Intelligence
Software architecture is no longer a static artifact — it’s a dynamic, living thing, shaped by AI’s relentless curiosity and our own audacity.
AI-Powered DevSecOps: Navigating Automation, Risk and Compliance in a Zero-Trust World
Breaking down how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping DevSecOps, the security pitfalls that come with it and how to balance the raw efficiency of automation with the actual realities of risk mitigation.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Thinking of changing jobs? Consider these five DevOps job opportunities, including roles at Adobe, Forward Slope and Esri.
AWS Adds MCP Support to Amazon Q Developer Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added support for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Amazon Q Developer, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for application developers that can now be more easily integrated with other AI tools and data sources.
Harmonizing AI-Driven DevOps: Building Secure, Self-Healing Pipelines With AWS Bedrock and SageMaker
The combination of SageMaker and Bedrock enables DevOps teams to develop secure self-healing pipelines through AI harmonization, which transforms software delivery processes.
Unit Testing in Development: Ensuring Code Quality and Reliability
Unit testing is a fundamental practice in software development that ensures code reliability, maintainability and early bug detection.
ArmorCode Makes Anya AI Agent Generally Available
ArmorCode at the 2025 RSA Conference this week made generally available Anya, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent added to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that has specifically been trained to augment DevSecOps teams.
Intelligent Continuous Security From the Platform Outward
In the end, ICS is not a tool — it’s a philosophy of secure software delivery. When it begins with the platform, everything else aligns: Speed, safety and scale.