
Red Hat Adds Managed Instance of Ansible to Expanding AWS Portfolio
Red Hat this week made available a managed instance of the Ansible automation framework on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

Objective-Based Testing: Transforming Test Design With Natural Language Prompts
Objective-based testing, with its focus on natural language prompts to initiate test design, is more than just a new technique.

Checkmarx Extends DevSecOps Reach to Repository Security and Secrets Discovery
Checkmarx this week extended the scope of its ability to protect software supply chains with tools that access how secure a repository is and find where application secrets have been shared in a way that is not secure. Ori Bendet, vice president of product management for Checkmarx, said the Repository Health and Secrets Detection tools […]

Symbiotic Security Platform Discovers Security Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
Symbiotic Security emerged from stealth this week to launch a namesake platform that enables application developers to discover and remediate vulnerabilities and other errors in real-time as code is being written.
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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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).

Finding the Right AI Coding Assistant for Your Team
A recent survey by StackOverflow showed that 76% of professional developers are already using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools for development this year. If you haven’t yet evaluated and chosen an AI coding assistant for your team, you may quickly find yourself in the minority.

Mitigating Risk in a World of AI-Generated Code
Tools and processes to stress test the code and reduce risk with software deployments are critical for achieving success in AI coding.

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.

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.

Harness Embeds AI Agents Into Core DevOps Platform
Harness today unfurled a bevy of additions to its portfolio that include artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are deeply embedded into DevOps workflows.

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.

Copado Adds AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows for Salesforce Apps
Copado today revealed it has developed a series of generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of automating specific tasks that DevOps teams routinely encounter when building and deploying applications on top of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce.

Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development
A survey of 555 software executives published this week finds that 75% have seen up to a 50% reduction in development time by implementing various artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies.

Navigating Agile Waters: Why Integrating Copilot Demands Methodological Adjustments
Changes to agile methodology are inevitable because GenAI and Agile are providing real competitive advantages.

JFrog CEO: Developers Need to Adapt to AI to Keep Their Jobs
JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim told attendees of the company’s swampUP 2024 conference that unless application developers adapt their jobs are indeed at risk because of the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Sustainable IT and Data Innovation: Driving the Future of DevOps
The worlds of sustainable IT and data innovation are converging, and two upcoming events are set to showcase the latest developments in these critical areas of sustainable IT and data innovation. The SustainableIT Impact Awards & Symposium and the DevOps + Data Impact 2024 promise to bring together industry leaders, experts, and practitioners to explore how […]

GitLab Makes AI Add-on for Enterprise Edition of CI/CD Platform Generally Available
GitLab this week made generally available a set of generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that DevOps teams can add on to the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform it provides. Priced at $39 per user per month, the add-on for GitLab Duo Enterprise provides all the AI capabilities of GitLab Duo Pro along with tools to […]
