Can Rust Improve Real Django API Performance? Testing Django-Bolt Beyond Synthetic Benchmarks
Django-Bolt uses Rust to accelerate Django request handling, but real-world gains depend on database work, authentication, serialization and where an API actually spends its time.
Why MLOps Pipelines Need Security Audits
A practical SecMLOps experiment shows how Apache Airflow ML pipelines can adopt DevSecOps controls for secrets, validation, artifact integrity and auditable security evidence.
The Three Tiers of Agentic Incident Response: When to Trust AI Autonomy
A three-tier model for agentic incident response balances AI automation with human oversight, matching autonomy to risk, reversibility, blast radius and diagnostic confidence.
The Most Dangerous Reliability Failures Aren’t Component Failures
A production provisioning failure shows why reliability problems can emerge from interactions between healthy components, and how system-level constraints and feedback can prevent them.
Factory Raises $200M as It Builds Agents Across the Software Lifecycle
Enterprise coding agent startup Factory announced it has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last funding round five months ago. Founded in 2023, Factory develops AI agents for software engineering teams. Its platform is designed for work across the full software development lifecycle, including building, testing […]
LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Gain SaaS App Emulation Platform
LocalStack this week revealed it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of an emulator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that is used to build custom applications for those platforms. Colin Neagle, vice president of marketing for LocalStack, said the emulators WonderTwin AI has developed will be integrated into the company’s namesake emulation platform that application development […]
Java 27 Tackles Post-Quantum Security and a Faster Patch Cadence
Java 27 strengthens enterprise security with monthly critical patch updates and post-quantum TLS 1.3 support, helping organizations prepare for AI-driven threats and future quantum risks.
Stop Chasing 100% Test Coverage: Why DevOps Teams Need to Test Smarter, Not More
Every software team eventually runs into the same question: How much testing is enough? For years, the default answer has been “more.” More automated tests. More regression suites. More environments. More devices. But as applications become more complex and release cycles continue to accelerate, testing everything simply isn’t realistic, even with the support of AI. […]
Hybrid Software Development: Benefits and Challenges
Fortunately, companies do not always have to choose between in-house vs outsourcing. Instead they can adopt a hybrid development strategy, which combines the capacities of internal and external IT teams. This approach allows companies to capitalize on the strengths of both traditional software development models, while offsetting their respective limitations, thereby streamlining project execution. However, […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
More JFrog Artifactory Bugs Are Under Attack, and All Three Have Patches
Attackers are actively exploiting three JFrog Artifactory flaws, exposing how slow patching can turn artifact repositories into software supply chain attack paths.
GitLab’s Critical Patch Closes a Path Traversal Flaw Attackers Are Already Probing
GitLab patches two critical flaws, including a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated file-read vulnerability, putting self-managed instances under urgent pressure to upgrade.
DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling
Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends. They compartmentalize DevOps principles to […]
GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure
GitHub’s August 2026 report details five outages tied to Actions and Copilot growth outpacing infrastructure. Here’s what platform teams should know.
GitHub Widens the Door on Advanced Security Trials
GitHub raised its self-serve Advanced Security trial cap from 100 to 300 licenses, letting more mid-size Enterprise Cloud orgs test for free.
Why AI Agents Shouldn’t Guess at Vulnerability Exploitability
Vulnerability prioritization is not a language problem. The safest agent architectures use models to interpret and explain, while deterministic systems traverse the evidence. Ask a security team a simple question: Of the vulnerabilities your scanner reported this morning, which ones can actually be exploited in production? The honest answer is often that nobody knows yet, […]
Atlassian Aims to Fill Context and Governance Gap for AI Coding Agents
Atlassian today extended the capabilities of its portfolio to provide teams of artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents with the level of context needed to build and deploy applications in production environments at much higher levels of scale. Code Context, built on Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, makes it possible for AI coding agents to generate more reliable […]
Test Creation Was Never the Bottleneck
Something specific happened to software delivery in the past two years. The 2026 survey data is unusually clear about what it was. Sonar’s 2026 State of Code Developer Survey found that AI-generated or AI-assisted code accounted for 42% of code committed by respondents, with developers projecting that share to reach 65% by 2027. GitLab’s 2026 […]
Flaw in DeepSeek Harness AI Coding Tool Let Agents Disable Their Sandbox
News of the now-fixed vulnerability comes amid growing concerns that AI vendors do not in have complete control of their autonomous agents.
GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands inside that environment, the question isn’t whether it’s useful. It’s what happens if it touches the wrong file, the wrong network path, or […]
Rust’s First Debugging Survey Shows Most Developers Skip the Debugger Entirely
Most Rust developers don’t use a debugger. That’s the headline finding from the Rust compiler team’s first dedicated debugging survey, and it’s worth sitting with for a second. Rust has spent years building a reputation as the language that catches your mistakes before you ship them. The compiler is famously strict. The type system is […]
AI Has Turned Verification Into the New DevOps Bottleneck
The next DevOps challenge is not generating more software. It is proving, quickly and repeatedly, that a growing volume of machine-generated change is fit to ship.
GitHub Quietly Fixes One of Dependabot’s Oldest Headaches
GitHub Dependabot can now authenticate to GitHub-hosted package registries without personal access tokens, reducing credential management and supply chain security risk.