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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 […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 6, 2024
Blogs

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.

Mike Vizard · Nov 5, 2024
Blogs

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 […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 4, 2024
Blogs

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.

Mike Vizard · Nov 1, 2024
Blogs

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 […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 1, 2024
Blogs

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.

Adrian Bridgwater · Oct 31, 2024
AI

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 29, 2024
Blogs

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 […]

Adrian Bridgwater · Oct 29, 2024
AI

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 29, 2024
AI

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 […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 29, 2024
Blogs

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 28, 2024
AI

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 24, 2024
AI

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.

Adrian Bridgwater · Oct 23, 2024
AI

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 23, 2024
AI

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.

Mike Vizard · Oct 23, 2024
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

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).

Mike Vizard · Oct 17, 2024