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 […]
The New Metrics of DevOps: Speed, Trust and Transparency
At swampUP 2025, Alan sits down with Aman Sardana and Vijay Kumar Soni to talk through one of the defining challenges of modern software delivery—how DevOps practices must evolve to accommodate the growing influence of artificial intelligence across the software development lifecycle. They explore the intersection of automation, security and scalability as organizations rethink their […]
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 […]
How DevOps Is Evolving for the Age of Intelligent Automation
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan sat down with Vishal Raina and Shibashis Mishra to discuss how DevOps is adapting to a new era defined by artificial intelligence, automation, and digital transformation at scale. As organizations embed AI across their software delivery pipelines, the conversation has shifted from simple productivity gains to questions of […]
Analysis Identifies 10 AI Coding Tool Behaviors That Ignore Best Software Engineering Practices
An analysis of more than 300 open source repositories published today by Ox Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) platform, identifies 10 systematic behaviors of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools that ignore established best practices for software engineering. Eyal Paz, vice president of research at OX Security, said that while policies […]
Cycode Previews Ability to Identify AI Tools and Platforms Used to Write Code
Cycode today announced it is providing early access to a capability that identifies which artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools are being employed by application developers in addition to adding an AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) that also identifies what underlying technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), are being invoked. Devin Maguire, senior product marketing […]
Infrastructure as Code, Security Blind Spots, and the Messy Reality of DevOps
I’ve spent most of my career in infrastructure and reliability engineering, from years as an SRE at Google to leading teams at Facebook and now building Spacelift. Along the way, I’ve watched entire paradigms rise and fall, seen technologies mature, and learned some hard lessons about where DevOps and security meet—and where they clash. The […]
Survey Sees Developers Embracing AI Faster than Project Leaders
A survey of 1,129 developers and 50 project managers suggests that individual developers are significantly further ahead when it comes to embracing AI than managers of application development projects. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the application developers surveyed said they are now saving on average 7.3 hours of work per week, […]
Beyond the Platform: How Enterprises Can Unify Their DevOps Toolchains for Better Governance and AI Readiness
For over a decade, the core mission of enterprise IT has been to accelerate innovation. This drive has led to a fundamental shift in how software is built, favoring team autonomy and the freedom to choose the best tools for the job. Whether it’s a specific CI/CD pipeline, a new testing framework, or a specialized […]
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Widespread Adoption of AI to Improve DevSecOps
A global survey of 1,015 IT professionals with responsibility for application security finds more than three quarters (77%) are using artificial intelligence (AI), with another 13% considering adoption. Conducted by Fastly, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) service, the survey also finds 25% of survey respondents using AI have fully integrated into their […]
Strengthening Software Trust in Modern DevOps Workflows
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with Tariq Shaukat, CEO of Sonar, and Gal Marder, EVP of Strategy at JFrog, for a discussion on how partnerships across the DevOps and AI ecosystems are reshaping the way software is built, secured and delivered. Shaukat emphasized that Sonar’s relationship with JFrog is rooted […]
Secure Governance and Scalable Management for AI Models
At swampUP 2025, Yuval Fernbach, vice president and CTO of MLOps at JFrog, and Adel El Hallak, senior director of product for NVIDIA AI Enterprise, discuss how JFrog is integrating machine learning operations (MLOps) into its platform strategy. Fernbach, who joined JFrog through its acquisition of Qwak, outlined how JFrog is extending its mission beyond […]
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Lots of Room for Software Engineering Improvement
A survey of 600 software engineers and 600 senior technology leaders across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France finds that nearly three quarters of software engineers say demands on their time make it difficult for them to build new features. Conducted by Chainguard, a provider of repositories for accessing secure container images, the […]
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 […]
Report: Full-Stack Observability Cuts Downtime Costs
The numbers are sobering, at best. A new global survey from New Relic pegs the median cost of a high-impact IT outage at $2 million per hour (that’s roughly $33,333 a minute) with a median annual hit of $76 million. That’s not just a bad week; it’s a major operational risk. And it’s landing just […]
How Graph Intelligence Is Transforming Software Supply Chain Visibility
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, longtime JFrog collaborator and Java community veteran Stephen Chin talks about the evolution of software delivery, the fusion of graph intelligence with DevOps, and the growing need for integrated security across the software supply chain. Chin, who has worn many hats across his career — from developer advocate to […]
NLP Tools for Intelligent Documentation and Developer Enablement
Natural language processing (NLP) is reshaping technical documentation and developer enablement. Organizations that select the right tools and integrate them effectively into existing environments streamline documentation workflows, reduce manual effort, and make technical knowledge more accessible to developers at all levels. Unlocking the highest value from NLP tools requires organizations to adapt models to their […]
ControlMonkey Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform
ControlMonkey today added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its infrastructure automation platform that promise to make it simpler for almost any developer to securely provision infrastructure as code (IaC). Company CEO Aharon Twizer said this KoMo AI extension to the ControlMonkey platform will eliminate a skills gap that often conspires to slow the pace at […]
Survey Surfaces Downstream DevOps Challenges Created by AI Code
A survey of 900 engineers, platform leaders and technical managers published today finds nearly two thirds (63%) report their organization is shipping code faster since adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Harness, a provider of a DevOps platform, the survey also suggests, however, that same code is creating more downstream […]
Latest DORA Report from Google Surfaces Significant AI Adoption
Google this week published the results of its annual DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) survey that finds 90% of the IT professionals surveyed are now using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with 80% reporting they are more productive as a result. The survey of nearly 5,000 IT professionals also finds that respondents now have a median […]
MLOps at Scale: How Community Is Driving AI Into Production
At swampUP 2025, Alan caught up with Demetrios Brinkmann, founder of the MLOps Community, to discuss the growing gap between AI research and real-world production deployments. Brinkmann leads a global network of more than 100,000 developers dedicated to bridging that divide, helping teams move beyond flashy demos and academic models to systems that deliver tangible […]