
The Rise of AI-Native DevOps: How AI Is Reshaping Software Delivery in 2026
For years, DevOps had a pretty straightforward mission: help teams ship reliable software faster by getting development and operations folks working together. Tools like automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and better observability have all been key pieces of the puzzle. But now, things are shifting again. This time, artificial intelligence is changing […]

Why Standardized Developer Environments Still Break DevOps Workflows
Standardized developer environments promise to eliminate one of software engineering’s oldest explanations: “It works on my machine.” By packaging approved runtimes, dependencies and tools into containers, virtual machines or cloud workspaces, organizations expect every developer to start from the same foundation. The approach delivers clear benefits. It reduces onboarding time, minimizes dependency conflicts and makes […]

Anthropic Makes Claude Code’s Auto Mode the Default, Betting Automation Beats Manual Review
Anthropic is making Claude Code’s auto mode the default for Pro, Max and Team users, replacing constant permission prompts with classifier-based guardrails designed to catch risky actions without slowing developers down.

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 […]

Microsoft’s New Testing Agent Tackles the Trust Gap in AI-Generated Code
AI coding assistants write code fast. Whether that code can be trusted is a separate question, and it’s becoming a more urgent one. Surveys this year put average developer trust in AI-generated output at just above the midpoint of a five-point scale, and more than half of developers admit they ship AI code without testing […]

‘Flooding Dropper’ Is Hitting npm With a Tidal Wave of Malicious Packages
Threat researchers at Sonatype are warning developers of an expanding campaign that is generating a wide range of npm accounts and dropping small numbers of malicious packages from each one, essentially flooding the zone with a broadly distributed and automated campaign to make it difficult for defenders to keep up. So far, the campaign – […]

HackerOne Extends Platform Reach to Remediate Source Code Vulnerabilities
HackerOne has added a remediation capability to its H1 Platform that reduces the amount of time required to remediate validated vulnerabilities and other weaknesses affecting specific lines of source code. Nidhi Aggarwal, chief product officer for HackerOne, said H1 Remediation combines artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourced research to identify the root cause of issues that […]

Why Reliability Guardrails Are Needed in Every AI Coding Pipeline
We’re in the middle of a reliability reckoning. Thanks to AI, companies are shipping code much faster than before. But if there’s anything to learn from the surge in high-profile outages over the last couple of years, it’s that with more code comes more reliability risks. And when those risks do lead to an outage, […]

Meta Launches AI Coding Agent to Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic
In an effort to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in one of AI’s fastest-growing markets, Meta has launched its first AI coding agent, Muse Code, alongside an updated coding-focused AI model. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the preview release of Muse Code, describing it as a tool that can handle software engineering tasks from planning […]

AWS Extends DevSecOps Reach to AI Coding Tools from Anthropic and OpenAI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at the Black Hat USA conference revealed it is working with both Anthropic and OpenAI to integrate their respective coding tools with a service it has developed that makes available artificial intelligence (AI) agents to help application developers write more secure code. Launched earlier this year, the AWS Continuum […]

Sandbox Testing for API-Heavy Systems: What Changes When You Don’t Own the Dependency
Sandbox testing works well when your team controls both sides of the integration. You define the service, you define the mock, you know exactly what the sandbox should return. That setup holds up fine for internal microservices and first-party APIs. It starts to break down when you don’t own the dependency. Payment processors, identity providers, […]

AWS Adds Agentic Workspace to Kiro AI Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added an open source workspace for its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that enables application developers to asynchronously assign tasks to an AI agent that is capable of autonomously performing tasks, such as testing code as it is created, in a way that maintains context across multiple sessions. […]

RapidFort Extends Open Source Software Security Reach to Runtime Environments
RapidFort today at the Black Hat USA conference announced it has extended its ability to secure open source software to the runtimes that DevOps teams deploy in production environments. Michael Wood, chief marketing officer for RapidFort, said the RapidFort Runtime platform makes it possible to now monitor open source software deployed within a container image […]

From API Integration to Agent Governance: What Backend Teams Need to Know About MCP
Many MCP projects begin with an existing API and a simple request: expose one backend capability to an LLM client. The quickest route is to wrap an endpoint as a tool and connect it to Claude or another MCP host. Users can then ask for data in natural language instead of navigating a fixed interface. […]

Fast-Moving Shai-Hulud Attack Infects npm Packages with 2 Billion Monthly Downloads
Researchers at Aikido Security and Endor Labs are tracking a fast-spreading supply-chain attack that is compromising a wide range of npm software packages that combined have more than 2 billion installs a month and is stealing a wide range of secrets and other information. According to Ilyas Makari, malware researcher with Aikido, the bad actor […]

AI is Coding Us Into a Corner
AI-powered patching and coding is putting us on a track towards a deepening dependency on future frontier models. The modern tools we use today to fix yesterday’s coding problems are quietly creating tomorrow’s quagmire. Companies are using AI to pay down 20 years of tech debt, but in doing so we’re generating a future problem […]

So Agentic Systems Are Messing Up Your SLO Framework
Traditional SLOs cannot show whether AI agents are behaving correctly. Platform teams need layered metrics for infrastructure, inference and behavioral reliability.

Shift Left Security: 4 Automated Security Gates in GitHub Actions
Learn how to add four automated security gates to GitHub Actions using npm audit, Snyk, Trivy, CodeQL and OWASP ZAP—without an enterprise licence.

N. Korea Group Behind Multiple Open Source Supply-Chain Attacks: Amazon
Amazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks increasingly facing developers, from the growing use of generative AI by bad actors and targeting of code repositories to financially focused attacks by nation-state hackers and the abuse of […]

Common Risks of Outsourcing Software Development, and How to Tackle Them
Both SMBs and large enterprises often choose software development outsourcing over developing software in-house. It is no surprise, as partnering with external developers enables companies to bridge IT talent gaps that cannot be filled internally, avoid time-consuming recruiting and training processes, and eliminate expenses associated with salaries and benefits, eventually accelerating software delivery and reducing […]

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 […]

Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience
Microsoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security.

JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM, a Research Prototype for Runtime Code Generation
JetBrains open-sources KotlinLLM, letting compiled Kotlin apps generate and persist LLM-written code at runtime instead of calling a model live.
