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GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, capacity planning, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, devops, distributed systems, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub outages, incident response, platform engineering, platform reliability, production resilience, retry storms, service availability, software delivery, Software Supply ChainGitHub'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
Tom Smith | | AI coding, application security, CodeQL, Developer Security, devsecops, exposed credentials, GHAS, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Code Security, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Secret Protection, GitHub security, mid-market security, Repository Security, secret scanning, secure software development, Software Supply Chain Security, vulnerability scanningGitHub 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
Harish Gaggar | | AI agents, application security, SBoM, Software Supply Chain, vulnerability management, vulnerability prioritizationVulnerability 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Flaw in DeepSeek Harness AI Coding Tool Let Agents Disable Their Sandbox
Jeff Burt | | agentic AI security, AI coding agents, AI sandbox, API Keys, DeepSeek Harness, OX Security, VulnCheckNews 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
Tom Smith | | AI agents, AI coding agents, AI Governance, Copilot sandbox, Developer Security, developer tools, Enterprise AI, filesystem controls, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Copilot JetBrains, IDE security, JetBrains, managed policies, MCP governance, network controls, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, sandbox security, software developmentJetBrains 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 ...
Rust’s First Debugging Survey Shows Most Developers Skip the Debugger Entirely
Tom Smith | | async Rust, dbg macro, developer experience, developer tools, GDB, LLDB, platform engineering, print debugging, runtime debugging, Rust compiler, Rust debugger, Rust debugging, Rust developers, Rust tooling, software debugging, software development, systems programming, ustMost 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 ...
AI Has Turned Verification Into the New DevOps Bottleneck
Alan Shimel | | AI agents, AI code generation, AI code review, AI coding, AI evaluation, AI in DevOps, CI/CD, continuous delivery, developer experience, developer productivity, devops, devops automation, platform engineering, pull requests, Release engineering, software delivery, software pipelines, The Great UnificationThe 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 ...
EU-Funded CodeSupply Offers Grants for Open Source Software Supply Chain R&D
Jaime Hampton | | CodeSupply, devsecops, grants and funding, NLnet Foundation, open source, software security, Software Supply ChainSoftware supply chain, security and compliance tools all depend on accurate information about the packages they analyze, but that data is often fragmented across multiple sources and can be difficult to access ...
DevOps in Financial Services: Moving Fast Without Losing Control
Prachi Tembhekar | | compliance, devops, financial services, observability, platform engineering, resilienceDevOps is often associated with speed: shorter release cycles, greater automation, faster feedback and increased developer autonomy. In financial services, however, speed is only one part of the equation. A platform supporting ...
