Best of 2025: AI-Generated Code Packages Can Lead to ‘Slopsquatting’ Threat
AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. They’re also an issue for developers using AI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages […]
Best of 2025: Semaphore Goes Open Source: A New Dawn for DevOps Professionals
A significant shift has occurred in the fast-evolving world of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Semaphore, a leading CI/CD platform, has announced its core platform is officially open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This move represents a pivotal moment for DevOps professionals worldwide, who have long struggled with the limitations of existing solutions. For […]
Best of 2025: OpenAI Codex: Transforming Software Development with AI Agents
OpenAI has launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent poised to revolutionize developers’ approaches to coding tasks. Powered by codex-1, a specialized version of OpenAI’s o3 model, Codex can work on multiple tasks simultaneously, offering developers an AI companion that understands their codebase and can handle a variety of software engineering responsibilities. What is Codex? […]
Best of 2025: The Future of DevOps: Key Trends, Innovations and Best Practices in 2025
DevOps has become a cornerstone of modern software development, bridging the gap between development and IT operations to create a seamless, efficient and agile approach to application delivery. Over the years, DevOps has evolved, and in 2025, is continuing to transform with the rise of cutting-edge technologies, new methodologies and a heightened focus on automation […]
Best of 2025: This Bankrupt AI Startup Was More Artificial Than Intelligent
It turns out Builder.ai was more artificial than intelligent. The $1.5 billion artificial intelligence (AI) company backed by Microsoft Corp. recently shuttered operations after its neural network was exposed to actually be 700 engineers in India. Builder.ai, which has begun formal bankruptcy proceedings in jurisdictions where it operated, including India, the U.K., and the U.S., […]
Best of 2025: 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 […]
Five 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 […]
Google Launches Agent Development Kit for TypeScript: A Code-First Approach to Building AI Agents
Google’s open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) lets TypeScript developers build modular, testable AI agents using familiar code-first workflows instead of prompt engineering.
Cursor Acquires Graphite to Streamline AI-Powered Development
Cursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development. The companies declined to disclose financial terms but confirmed the transaction involves a mix of cash and equity. While AI has dramatically accelerated […]
Dynatrace Delivers on Promise to Observe AI Coding Tools from Google
Dynatrace announced new integrations with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise and Gemini CLI, using agentic AI, A2A protocol, and MCP servers to enhance observability, root-cause analysis, and DevOps governance across AI-driven workflows.
Surprise! Everybody Uses AI Tools for Software Development, Few Do So Securely
AI is generating code faster than teams can secure it, widening software supply chain risk and exposing major gaps in AppSec and governance.
Harnessing ChatOps to Solve Enterprise-Wide Communication Challenges
ChatOps helps DevOps teams streamline communication by executing workflows directly in chat. Learn the benefits, use cases, and best practices for enterprise ChatOps adoption.
Feeding the Beast: Why Giving Your Code to AI Agents Might Be Your Biggest Mistake Yet
Your codebase isn’t food, but AI agents are more than happy to devour it. Teams keep handing over entire repositories because automation feels like a cheat code for productivity. The problem shows up later, when those same agents behave like overeager interns copying the wrong patterns, amplifying your technical debt or quietly leaking sensitive logic into their […]
Real-Time Anomaly Detection: Integrating Log Service With Agentic AI Pipelines
Learn how agentic AI and real-time anomaly detection create self-healing DevOps pipelines. This guide covers architectures, code examples, and metrics to cut MTTR by up to 90%.
Three Encryption Resolutions for DevSecOps in 2026
As supply chain attacks surge and AI-powered threats grow, DevSecOps teams must strengthen CI/CD security. Learn why PKI, code signing, and certificate automation are critical in the year ahead.
Sonar Adds Ability to Analyze Architecture of Applications to Code Analysis Tool
Sonar this week revealed it has added an ability to analyze the architecture of a software application to its SonarQube tool for analyzing code quality. Available in beta and scheduled to be made generally available in the first quarter, the addition to SonarQube promises to make it simpler to understand the actual structure of an […]
Checkmarx Acquisition of Tromzo Accelerates Plan to Apply AI to Application Security
Checkmarx accelerates its AI-driven DevSecOps strategy after acquiring Tromzo, integrating AI agents to automate application security across the software development lifecycle.
DevOps for GenAI Toronto Edition Hackathon: Unlocking New Opportunities
This week in Toronto, at the DevOps for GenAI Hackathon, something remarkable occurred: Industry professionals, academic leaders and learners representing top academic institutions, fintech, technology firms, and consulting companies came together in a high-intensity innovation sprint that blurred the lines between academia and enterprise. Across four banking teams (including winners from Scotiabank), three technology and […]
Analysis Surfaces Rising Wave of Software Defects Traced to AI Coding Tools
An analysis of 470 real-world open source pull requests published today finds code generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools introduces significantly more defects across every major category of software quality, including logic, maintainability, security, and performance, compared to human-authored code. Conducted by CodeRabbit, a provider of a platform that employs AI to review code, the […]
Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
Virtual care went from a nice-to-have to a must-have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will continue: According to Health-tech companies, the telemedicine market was valued at $143.49 billion in 2024. It is predicted to be $167.74 billion in 2025 and reach $584.99 billion by 2033 at a growth rate of 16.9%. Telehealth platforms handle sensitive health information, manage appointments, stream live […]
Proactive Problem-Solving: Observability Trends Every Leader Should Know
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, reactive IT management is no longer sustainable. Business leaders are increasingly recognizing that proactive observability has become necessary to maintain a competitive advantage and ensure operational excellence and customer satisfaction. Organizations that embrace advanced observability strategies can avoid future problems associated with reactive firefighting. The Strategic Shift: From Reactive to Predictive The paradigm shift in observability represents a fundamental change in how organizations monitor system health and ensure business continuity. Modern observability platforms such […]
Why Your AI Agent Strategy is Failing (and How to Fix It): The Microservices Playbook for AI Agents
Despite billions in AI investment and countless vendor promises, most enterprises are still treating AI agents like glorified copilots rather than autonomous systems. After working with numerous enterprise customers implementing AI agents across various industries, a pattern has emerged: The companies finding real success aren’t the ones building the biggest, most ambitious agents — they’re the ones treating agents as microservices. As of […]
New Relic AWS Integrations Go Deep on Root Cause Observability Analysis
New Relic expands its observability platform with deep AWS integrations to speed incident resolution and support AI-driven DevOps workflows.