Survey: IT Teams Spend About a Third of Time Responding to Disruptions
A global survey of 1,700 IT professionals finds on average teams are grappling with 280 hours of median annual downtime a year, which at 12 hours of a 40-hour work week equates to about 30% of their time. Conducted by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) on behalf of New Relic, the most common causes of downtime […]
Microsoft Engineers Highlight Git Repository Bloat Flaw
A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requirements that result.
Survey Shines Spotlight on Inability to Keep Application Secrets
A global survey of 1,000 IT leaders from organizations with more than 500 employees published today finds that 79% have experienced or are aware of secrets leaking within their organization.
GitHub Extends Reach and Scope of Generative AI Ambitions
GitHub today revealed it is adding support for both the Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Anthropic and the Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM from Google to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing code.
Riveting Repositories: JFrog GitHub Unification Leaps Onward
Repositories rarely rivet and rope themselves together quite like the union that has been forming between JFrog and GitHub. The company known for its bullfrog-themed universal repository manager for software application artifacts spanning dependencies, binaries and configuration files continues to forge a partnership with the widely popular web-based developer code collaboration platform. The suggestion from […]
Instabug Leverages Generative AI to Automatically Fix Mobile Applications
Instabug today revealed it has added an ability to both analyze mobile application crash report data and source code, to better pinpoint the root cause of issues accurately, which it then feeds into a proprietary generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, dubbed SmartResolve, that automatically generates the code needed to resolve it.
Tabnine Previews AI Agent to Review Code as Created
Tabnine today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that ensures code adheres to an organization’s policies and software development standards.
Crowdbotics Integrates AI Platform for Requirements Docs with GitHub Copilot
Crowdbotics today made available an extension for GitHub Copilot that makes it simpler to generate code using higher-quality requirements documents. Unveiled at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference, this extension provides a simpler method to invoke an AI platform that Crowdbotics created to convert plain language descriptions of applications into a requirements document. Application developers can […]
DevOps for Both Discontinuous and Continuous Improvements
According to Dr. Russell Ackoff, pioneer of systems design theory. “Discontinuous improvements are more important than continuous improvements” because creativity is a disruptive process. True quality focuses on value not efficiency. And to achieve quality it is essential to engineer a system as a whole, and not only improve its parts. This viewpoint is different […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Our weekly insight into DevOps job opportunities that are currently available, including this week, positions at Lockheed Martin and Moody’s.
Survey Surfaces Spike in Observability Investments Among DevOps Teams
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds 63% working for organizations that will be making additional investments in observability over the next two years, with 21% describing those investments as significant.
Augment Code Delivers AI Code Generation Platform to Rival GitHub Copilot
Augment Code today unveiled an AI tool designed for software engineering teams to collaboratively employ large language models specifically trained to generate code.
Zencoder Emerges From Stealth to Unveil AI Coding Platform
Zencoder today emerged from stealth to make generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that in addition to generating code is also able to repair code, create tests and optimize code in real time using built-in static analysis capabilities.
Learning From SpaceX: How the Space Industry’s Transformation can Inspire DevOps in Software Development
In recent years, the space industry, much like software development, has experienced rapid transformation. SpaceX has revolutionized space launches with its use of reusable rockets and innovative suppliers.
Anthropic AI Model Automates Developer Mouse Movements
Anthropic has developed and released a new batch of enhanced artificial intelligence models designed to save keystrokes and headaches by autonomously performing tasks typically carried out by software application developers.
Sonar Details OpenAPI Generator Flaw That Creates Source Code Vulnerability
Sonar, a provider of code scanning tools, revealed this week that it has discovered a flaw in a widely used tool for generating application programming interfaces (APIs) that makes it possible for cybercriminals to both read and delete files and files stored in a write directory.
Update to Open Source WhiteRabbitNeo Project Brings Smarter AI to DevSecOps
Kindo today revealed that WhiteRabbitNeo, an open-source DevSecOps platform, has been updated to take advantage of improved large language models (LLMs) that generate more accurate outputs when resolving prompts related to offensive cybersecurity, surfacing remediations for potential threats and integrating threat intelligence and vulnerability data.
6 Essential Components of a Successful Security ‘Rewards Program’ for Software Developers
The software development industry could use a rewards program especially when it comes to ensuring a ‘security first’ mindset among developers.
Survey Sees AI Being Applied to Improve Software Quality Testing
A global survey of 1,775 IT and business executives published today finds 71% are working for organizations that have integrated some form of artificial intelligence and generative AI capability into their operation, with just over a third (34%) specifically using AI to improve quality assurance. Conducted by Sogeti, a unit of Capgemini in collaboration with […]
Latest DORA Report Surfaces Limited Gains from AI and Platform Engineering
The annual DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) published today by Google finds that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to moderate gains in productivity, it also appears to be slowing the rate at which software is being delivered. The report finds more than three quarters of the software development professionals surveyed (76%) are relying […]
Resourcely Adds Free Tier to Cloud Configuration Management Platform
Resourcely has added a free tier option for its platform for safely configuring and deploying cloud resources using a set of templates and guardrails for application developers using either open source Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools. Company CEO Travis McPeak said the platform makes it possible for DevOps teams to centrally govern the configuration […]
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 […]
HashiCorp Updates Terraform; Wider Cloud Infrastructure Developer Toolsets
As HashiCorp quietly slips into its new existence under the parent umbrella of IBM after this year’s $6.4 billion acquisition, the company held (one last?) HashiConf in Boston this week to set out its stall. That market stall is of course one populated by infrastructure lifecycle management and security lifecycle management products for hybrid multi-cloud […]