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 […]
Prime Security to Apply AI Guardrails to DevSecOps Workflows
Prime Security today emerged from stealth to make available a beta version of a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the appropriate guardrails are being followed as software is developed.
Sonatype Report Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Challenges
Sonatype today during a virtual All-Day DevOps (ADD) event shared the results of a report that finds there has been a 156% increase in the number of malicious open source packages year-over-year, reaching more than 512,847 for a 156% increase in the past year.
Apollo GraphQL Previews Toolkit to Unify Queries Spanning LLMs and REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL today previewed a toolkit that makes it possible to use a generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt to launch a GraphQL query against REST application programming interfaces (API) that returns results in the form of a natural language output created by a large language model (LLM).
Survey Sees Steady Adoption of AI Among DevOps Teams
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds a third (33%) are working for organizations that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) to build software, while another 42% are considering it. Only 6% said they have no plans to use AI.
IBM Survey Surfaces Mainframe Application Modernization Motives
A survey of 2,551 technology leaders finds business criticality (51%) followed closely by cost savings (45%) and the age and obsolescence of an application as the primary drivers of mainframe application modernization.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Five great DevOps job opportunities for your perusal this week, including senior DevOps engineer roles at JFrog, UST Global and PayQuicker.
Honeycomb Extends Observability Reach to Front Ends of Applications
Honeycomb has made available an extension to its observability platform that provides the ability to analyze front ends of applications.
Latest OpenStack Release Extends Scope and Reach of Cloud Platform
The latest edition of the OpenStack framework released this week adds an ability to reserve instances of graphical processor units (GPUs) along with a revamped user interface (UI) that promises to make the cloud management framework more accessible.
Survey Surfaces Depth of Mainframe Application Migration Challenges
A global survey of 309 decision-makers responsible for modernizing mainframe applications finds that while 69% of respondents said the initiatives are either very or extremely important for enabling their organizations to achieve their business objectives, only 18% of the budget allocated for these projects is being used to specifically modernize or rewrite those applications.
Legit Security Adds Application Security Rating Scorecards to ASPM Platform
Legit Security today added an ability to rate the level of software security that has been attained to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform.
Sonar Adds AI Tools to Identify Issues and Fix Code Created by Machines and Humans
Sonar, in addition to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its core platform for remediation vulnerabilities, also unveiled a tool that identifies vulnerabilities in code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
Platform Engineering Gains Traction Builders of Embedded Systems
A survey of 317 decision-makers and influencers responsible for applying platform engineering to the development of custom software destined to run on embedded systems identifies improving cost efficiency (43%) as the primary business benefit of adopting a methodology for managing DevOps workflows at scale.
Survey Surfaces Increased DevOps Adoption in Mainframe Environments
A survey of 1,223 IT professionals who work in mainframe environments finds that 62% work for organizations that have adopted DevOps practices, with 35% relying on DevOps workflows to build and deploy applications on both mainframes and distributed computing systems.
Survey Sees Positive DevOps Outlook Driving Investments
A survey of over 500 DevOps practitioners finds that approximately 60% of respondents plan to boost investments in DevOps tools and platforms in the next two years, with 20% planning significant budget increases.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Are you considering a change? This week we highlight some great DevOps job opportunities including positions at CapitalOne and NVIDIA.
Survey Finds Compensation Drives Better Open Source Software Security Behavior
A survey of 400 maintainers of open-source software projects suggests IT organizations should be paying a lot more attention to the degree to which the stewards of these projects are compensated before downloading software components.
Observe Adds Generative AI Agents to Observability Platform
Observe, Inc. today launched a Project Voyager update that adds generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its namesake observability platform.
AWS AI Agent for Software Development Takes on More Complex Tasks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an update to its Amazon Q Developer agent for software development that benchmark tests show can resolve 51% more tasks.
System Initiative Makes SaaS Platform for Modeling DevOps Workflows Generally Available
System Initiative today made generally available an automation platform that creates a programmable model of an IT environment to provide an abstraction layer that enables software engineering to employ reactive code to manage IT infrastructure.
CortexClick Leverages Generative AI to Automate Software Documentation
CortexClick today launched a content generation platform based on large language models (LLMs) that have been specifically trained to create documentation, tutorials and technical blog posts, including screenshots, for organizations building software.
Gearset Acquires Clayton to Add Salesforce Code Analytics to DevOps Workflows
Gearset this week revealed it has acquired Clayton, a provider of a code analysis platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications running on the Salesforce cloud service.
Study Finds No DevOps Productivity Gains from Generative AI
A study of 800 software developers working on large engineering teams that have adopted the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool finds limited gains in productivity are being achieved.