
Kloudfuse Adds Raft of Additional Capabilities to Unify Observability
Kloudfuse today updated its namesake observability platform to add support for continuous profiling and real user monitoring (RUM) along with additional analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Incredibuild Acquires Garden to Streamline Continuous Integration
Incredibuild this week revealed it has acquired Garden, a provider of an open-source framework that makes it simpler to track the relationships between software components as DevOps teams build applications. Founded in 2018, Garden has been primarily focused on eliminating bottlenecks within continuous integration (CI) pipelines that slow the pace of application development and waste […]

Broadcom Strengthens Case for Integrated VCF Platform
Broadcom today revealed it is adding a raft of additional capabilities to the optional portfolio of services it makes available on top of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including a module that makes it simpler to deploy databases on top of instances of Kubernetes that are integrated with the VMware virtual machine platform.

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud 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 […]
New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.

DataStax Aims to Reduce Friction by Extending Support for GitHub Copilot
DataStax this week at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference revealed it has extended its support for the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to now include the ability to write data to its Astra databases-as-service (DBaaS) platform based on the open-source Cassandra database.

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 […]

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.

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.

AI Will Soon Automate DevSecOps Governance
The role cybersecurity teams play in ensuring applications are secure is about to become a lot more proactive in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

BMC Adds AI Assistant to Help Modernize Mainframe Applications
BMC Software this week at its Connect 2024 conference unveiled a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that makes it simpler to invoke a range of AI capabilities in mainframe environments.