SDLC Data Governance Critical as AI Systems Outpace Human Oversight
As adoption of agentic AI accelerates, with limited human participation, the question has shifted from how fast teams can ship software to what was shipped, why it changed, what influenced those decisions along the way. Also of concern is whether compliance and security requirements have been met. This is why governance designed for an AI-driven […]
GitHub Retires Its Free AI Model Playground — What Developers Need to Know
GitHub is retiring GitHub Models, closing it to new customers. Existing users can continue for now; Azure AI Foundry is the path forward.
What Five Localization Pull Requests Revealed About Open Source Governance: A Field Report on Open Source’s i18n Infrastructure Gap
If you maintain an OSS (Open Source Software) project, audit your contribution workflow this week. Could a new contributor add a language without asking basic questions? If not, the next merge is not blocked by translators. It is constrained by the project’s current design.
IaC Isn’t Dying. AI Makes it More Important
AI-generated infrastructure code is arriving faster than most organizations can absorb it. The organizations that invested in platform quality first are the ones pulling ahead. Every few years, someone declares that Infrastructure as Code is dead. The arguments tend to “sidecar” the hype cycle. First, complexity, then containers, then Kubernetes, then serverless. Now it’s AI’s […]
AWS Previews iOS App to Manage Kiro AI Coding Workflows
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made available, via an early access program, an iOS application through which application developers can start sessions and approve changes made by the Kiro AI coding tool the cloud service provider created. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the iOS application provides all the management capabilities provided by […]
Microsoft Enlists AWS to Help GitHub Handle Explosive Growth in AI Development
Microsoft has reportedly begun using Amazon Web Services to provide additional computing capacity for GitHub as a dramatic rise in AI-assisted software development places unprecedented demands on the coding platform. The news is unexpected from Microsoft, which has spent years positioning Azure as the destination for GitHub’s long-term infrastructure. Since acquiring GitHub in 2018, Microsoft […]
Anthropic Hits Pause on Claude Agent SDK Billing Change, For Now
Anthropic paused its Claude Agent SDK billing overhaul hours before launch. Here’s what changed, why, and what IT leaders should track now.
Autonomous AWS Agent Automates Modernization of Codebases
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that has been trained to continuously modernize codebases. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the AI agent is being embedded into AWS Transform, the application modernization service AWS launched last year. Sriram Devanathan, director of AWS Transform, said the […]
Why AI Testing Must Live Inside Your CI/CD Pipeline
Here is a situation most engineering leaders recognize. You roll out AI coding tools. Features ship faster. Developers are more productive. Then, a few months in, you realize something unexpected: the engineers you most wanted to free up are busier than ever. They are reviewing PRs, firefighting regressions, juggling a dozen half-shipped features and the […]
AWS Continuum Service Employs AI to Secure Software Supply Chains
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a service that expands the scope of the artificial intelligence (AI) tools it provides to secure code to include an agent that discovers, validates and prioritizes vulnerabilities that are then used to surface a remediation recommendation. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the AWS Continuum service also adds […]
AWS Previews Release Management Capabilities Added to DevOps Agent
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed a release management capability for the artificial intelligence (AI) agent it developed to automate DevOps workflows. Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the latest release of the AWS DevOps Agent makes available in preview an updated version of the AWS DevOps Agent that can now review and test […]
Five Technology Shifts In: Why the Hype Curve Lies in Both Directions
I’ve lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through the 2010s, and now AI. You learn things by surviving that many. You learn that vendors oversell. That leadership wants results yesterday. That the breathless predictions […]
GitHub Actions Gets Serious About Self-Hosted Runner Versions
GitHub is resuming enforcement of minimum version requirements for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners — and this time, the deadlines are firm. After a rocky start that included multiple delays and a temporary pause earlier this year, GitHub has published a clear enforcement timeline for both GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. […]
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.21 Is Now Generally Available
GitHub has released GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21, the latest version of its self-hosted platform for enterprise development teams. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management — areas that matter most to enterprise DevOps teams managing complex environments at scale. Here’s a look at what’s new and why it […]
Checkmarx Adds Hybrid SAST Engine to Improve AppSec in AI Era
Checkmarx this week revealed it has re-engineered the core engines embedded within its static application security testing (SAST) tools for the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era. At the core of that effort is a next-generation SAST hybrid scanning engine that combines three distinct capabilities within the Checkmarx One platform. An existing deterministic rules-based foundation is […]
SpaceX to Acquire AI Coding Leader Cursor in $60 Billion Blockbuster Deal
Fresh off a historic initial public offering, SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant Cursor, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion. The acquisition cements SpaceX’s sudden transformation into an AI powerhouse, following its merger with […]
MiMo Code Is the Open Source Answer to Claude Code
Terminal-based coding assistants for AI-curious developers are hot these days, and the most popular choice appears to be Claude Code. But Anthropic’s commercial offering has a new open source rival: MiMo Code, released under an MIT license by Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. Unlike Claude Code, MiMo Code is not restricted to a specific LLM provider. […]
Tenet’s ‘Agentjacking’ Attack Turns Sentry Errors Into Code Execution
AI coding agents can create a new code execution risk when they treat externally influenced error data as trusted guidance and have access to command line tools, according to new research from Tenet Security. The security company demonstrated an indirect prompt injection technique it calls “Agentjacking” in a recent report. In its proof of concept, […]
New Relic Adds Open Source Tool to Observe AI Coding
New Relic has made available an open source extension to its observability platform for coding tools at no additional cost. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said the New Relic AI Coding Observability capability will make it simpler for DevOps teams to centrally monitor usage of a diverse range of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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 […]
Respect and Trust as DevOps Engineering Disciplines
Respect and trust are DevOps engineering disciplines. They shape flow, quality, security, reliability, and adaptation.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code Targets Token Efficiency in Agentic Coding
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code offers 30% lower token usage and a 21.8% coding benchmark gain — here’s what DevOps teams need to know about the open-source release.
GitHub Removes PAT Requirement for Agentic Workflows
GitHub Agentic Workflows can now use GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token (PAT). That means developers no longer need to create, store, or rotate a PAT to run agentic workflows, eliminating both the operational hassle and the security risks that come with managing long-lived tokens at scale.