AWS Transform Modernizes Any Codebase, App, API or Runtime
Platforms, paradigms, processes and processing itself all evolve. Because the information technology industry crosses from one chasm to another on an apparently endless loop of perpetual change, applications and wider systems need to be almost continually modernized. Amazon Web Services wants to enable that process with AWS Transform, a service that now ships with new […]
Stack Overflow Makes Available AI Assistant for Verifying Code
Stack Overflow today made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible to use natural language to search its repositories for code. Company CTO and chief product officer Jody Bailey said AI Assist provides developers with a conversational search and discovery tool that enables them to more easily find relevant online content […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Post-holiday job search? Check out our weekly jobs report for inspiration, including roles at Alta IT Services and Belay Technologies.
It’s Time to Rethink Access Control for Modern Development Environments
As development environments evolve at breakneck speed, our approach to securing them remains stuck in the past. I’ve watched countless organizations implement robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, deploy Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools, and then breathe a collective sigh of relief, believing they’ve solved their access control challenges. But have they? An […]
How Open Source Tools Simplify DevOps for Startups
In recent years, software development has made big strides. Tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and other AI helpers have given developers the power to churn out code, tests, and documentation faster than ever. However, for solo founders and small startup teams, getting things written is only half the battle. Real challenges lie in getting it […]
Developer Productivity in the Vibe Coding Era: Is AI Really Moving the Needle?
Let me be clear. I do not like the term “vibe coding.” The label is sloppy and the concept it pushes is even sloppier. It lumps together two very different practices and turns a serious profession into a trend. On one side, experienced developers use AI to speed up real work. They ask pointed questions, […]
The Cloud Scout Model Delivers Reliability As An Embedded Capability
Organizations today face a structural problem that is slowing down their move to cloud-native maturity. They’ve adopted modern DevOps tools, yes. They’re running Kubernetes. They’re using sophisticated observability platforms. But the people-and-process piece often remains stuck in the traditional enterprise IT paradigm. The rift is simple: developers are tasked with delivering features, and operational staff […]
Why Up to 70% of SRE Initiatives Stall Before They Scale — and How to Break the Plateau
Many SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone.
From What Now to What’s Next: How AI Is Closing the Gap Between Detection and Resolution
Modern DevOps teams face outages driven by complex dependencies and AI-enabled systems; success now depends on moving from reactive monitoring to prescriptive, AI-assisted incident resolution that shortens MTTI and MTTR.
Patch or Perish: The Brutal Truth About Vulnerability Management in 2025
Vulnerability management in 2025 is overwhelmed by escalating CVEs and costly breaches; organizations must shift from slow, manual patching to continuous, risk-based, AI-powered remediation to stay secure.
What I’m Thankful for in DevOps This Year: Living Through Interesting Times
Alan reflects on a chaotic yet inspiring year in DevOps, highlighting the rise of AI in engineering, the maturation of DevSecOps, the evolution of hybrid work culture, the surge of platform engineering and IDPs, and the continued strength and inclusivity of the DevOps community — while acknowledging the talent crunch, tool sprawl and security theater that still challenge the industry.
The Future of Infrastructure Automation in the Age of Autonomous Agents
For more than a decade, the evolution of infrastructure automation has followed a clear trajectory. Organizations have invested in workflows, pipelines, controllers, and compliance engines because the market demanded stronger guarantees around reliability and scale. Outages turned into measurable losses. Small misconfigurations cascaded into systemic failures. Even highly skilled teams struggled to keep pace with […]
Second Coming of Shai-Hulud Cyberattack Ravages JavaScript Repositories
A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headache for DevSecOps teams around the globe. Based on what is being described as the “Second Coming” of Shai-Hulud, this version affects a much wider range of npms and is much […]
The Future of DevOps Still Has a Pulse
Over the last few years, we have watched our industry get swept up in the promise of AI agents. The pitch is compelling: tell a system “Deploy this workflow and roll back if things don’t go as expected,” and watch it handle everything else. No more YAML troubleshooting and pipeline debugging. We’ve all been there, […]
The Coding Assistant Bottleneck: Applying the 3-Ways
AI coding assistants are the talk of the town, and for good reason. Tools that can turn a comment into a function or autocomplete entire classes are genuinely changing the developer experience. We’re writing more code, faster than ever before. It feels like a massive productivity win. But is it? While we’ve supercharged the early […]
What Fuels AI Code Risks and How DevSecOps Can Secure Pipelines
Modern development teams are under constant pressure to deliver fast, innovate continuously, and stay clear of security threats; all at the same time. Every new feature, every accelerated release, carries the hidden risk of introducing vulnerabilities that can slip past traditional check points. Even the most seasoned developers can unknowingly leave gaps that put applications […]
How to Escape the Talent Valley
Across the tech industry a disconcerting trend is emerging, job losses at the hand of a seemingly more efficient and cost-effective employee, artificial intelligence (AI). Software developers in particular have felt the full force of automation’s iron fist, with layoffs widespread. Since May, Microsoft alone has let go of approximately 15,000 employees, with software engineers […]
Endor Labs Adds AI SAST Tool to Discover Vulnerabilities in Code
Endor Labs launches an agentic AI-powered SAST tool that drastically reduces false positives, identifies deeper code flaws and helps DevSecOps teams secure AI-generated code across 40+ languages.
How to Build Engineering Teams That Drive Outcomes, not Outputs
Outcome-based engineering teams focus on delivering real customer and business impact, aligning goals, adapting quickly, and collaborating across roles to drive results.
Modular & Shift-Left Observability for Modern DevOps Pipelines
Shift-left observability makes monitoring a modular, built-in part of DevOps—improving reliability, cost efficiency, and visibility across modern cloud-native systems.
The Hidden Cost of “Free” Open Source Infrastructure
When the OpenSSF, PyPI, Rust Foundation, and OpenJS recently declared that “Open Infrastructure Is Not Free,” they highlighted a crisis that affects every organization building modern software. Behind every container image pulled, every vulnerability scan and every automated deployment, there’s a vast web of infrastructure: Package registries, CI/CD services, artifact repositories, security feeds, distribution networks and CDN layers. For decades, this […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
This Thanksgiving week, we share a fresh DevOps jobs report: Top roles and opportunities for professionals looking to level up their careers.
Bindplane Adds AI Ability to Automate Configuring OpenTelemetry Pipelines
Bindplane is adding AI-powered Pipeline Intelligence to automate log parsing and optimize OpenTelemetry pipelines as telemetry volumes surge across modern DevOps environments.