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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 […]

Peter Sprygada · Nov 25, 2025
Video Interviews

Humans in the Loop: Governing AI Agents Across the SDLC

AI agents are moving from novelty to necessity in software delivery—and with that shift, the developer’s role is changing. Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations for GitLab, explores what happens when every engineer works alongside a small “team” of agents: some personal, some shared across squads, and others assigned to specific lifecycle […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 24, 2025
Blogs

Observability: The Real Killer App

My friends, I’ve been around long enough in the world of DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native to see the “next big thing” fade into “just another dashboard.” But today I’m here to tell you: observability isn’t just another tool—it might very well be the killer app of our era. The Rise of Observability Remember when “monitoring” […]

Jenn Yarnold · Nov 20, 2025
AI

Tessl Details Plan to Build Platform for Managing AI Agents Embedded in DevOps Workflows

Tessl today outlined a plan to extend a registry it created for specifications that govern the behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) agents being used to build software to create a platform for creating, distributing and observing those specifications. Speaking at a DevCon Fall 2025 conference hosted by the company, Tessl CEO Guy Podjarny said that […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 19, 2025
AI

Tabnine Adds Agents Capable of Automating Workflows to AI Coding Platform

Tabnine introduces Tabnine Agentic, a new generation of AI agents that automate multi-step DevOps workflows including refactoring, debugging, and documentation. Built on Tabnine’s Context Engine, these agents bring governance, cost control, and compliance to AI-powered code development.

Mike Vizard · Nov 5, 2025
AI

The AI-Powered Evolution of Software Development

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing software development—accelerating coding, improving quality, and enabling autonomous operations. From GitHub Copilot to AI-driven DevOps, businesses leveraging AI tools are building smarter, faster, and more adaptive applications.

Vishwanath Krishnamurthy · Nov 4, 2025
AI

Context Engineering: The Next Frontier in AI-Driven DevOps

Imagine a world where your on-call alerts are not just a cryptic message, but a rich, contextualized story of what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how to fix it. This is the promise of context engineering, a concept poised to redefine the role of artificial intelligence in DevOps. While AI has long been touted as […]

Arun Sanna · Nov 3, 2025
AI

GitHub Adds Platform for Managing AI Agents Embedded in DevOps Workflows

GitHub today launched a platform for managing artificial intelligence (AI) agent workflows across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Announced at the GitHub Universe 2025 conference, Agent HQ makes it possible to unify the management of AI agents developed by not just GitHub but also third-party providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and xAI. As […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 28, 2025
AI

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Developer’s Guide to AI Reusability

Every great innovation brings on new challenges, and AI is no exception. As technology leaders instruct their workforces to default to using AI in their day-to-day tasks and as AI workflows become increasingly critical to software engineering practices, a familiar challenge persists: reusability. There are libraries, packages and shared components available for reuse with traditional […]

Daniel Helfand · Oct 24, 2025
AI

Opsera Adds AI Agent Capable of Analyzing Quality of Code Generated by AI Tools

Opsera today added an artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning agent to its platform that is specifically trained to surface in real time how DevOps teams are deriving value from investments in AI coding tools. At the same time, Opsera is adding to its namesake platform for managing and automating DevOps workflows an ability to integrate with […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 23, 2025
AI

Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability

Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]

Pankaj Thakkar · Oct 23, 2025
AI

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP Access with Serious Responsibilities

OpenAI recently released Developer Mode for ChatGPT, and it’s not for everyone. This beta feature provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) client support, granting complete access to both read and write operations across your connected tools. But here’s what you need to understand up front: this is powerful, and it’s dangerous. What Developer Mode Actually […]

Tom Smith · Oct 15, 2025
Contributed Content

Technical Debt: Make Developers Happier Now or Pay More Later

In a survey of over a thousand CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other tech execs conducted by Protiviti, organizations spend an average of 30% of their total IT budgets on managing technical debt. Not only is it costly, but nearly 70% felt that technical debt highly impacted their ability to innovate. Technical debt happens to organizations […]

Ernesto Tagwerker · Oct 10, 2025
AI

Spacelift Adds Open Source AI Vibecoding Tool to Provision Infrastructure

Spacelift today unfurled an open source agentic artificial intelligence (AI) framework for managing infrastructure that eliminates the need for a developer to write any Terraform or OpenTofu code. Marcin Wyszynski, chief research and development officer for Spacelift, said instead of generating code Spacelift Intent translates requests directly into an application programming interface (API) that interacts […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 8, 2025
Video Interviews

Building End-to-End Trust in the Software Supply Chain

At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Guy Levi, head of the architects team, highlights some of the technologies shaping the company’s next chapter. Levi’s role centers on exploring advanced technologies “beyond the horizon,” but he emphasized that swampUP isn’t about future promises — it’s about showing what’s available today. One of the highlights Levi pointed to was […]

Jenn Yarnold · Sep 19, 2025
AI

MongoDB Taps AI Agent to Launch Application Modernization Platform

MongoDB today unveiled an application modernization platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to analyze and convert legacy applications into code that can be used to deploy a modern application on its document database. Shilpa Kolhar, senior vice president of product and engineering for MongoDB, said the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP) will […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 16, 2025
Video Interviews

Sketch Coding and the Rise of MCP in DevOps

At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always […]

Jenn Yarnold · Sep 12, 2025