GitHub Resets Copilot Pricing as AI Compute Costs Surge
The development community saw this one coming: GitHub will transition its Copilot service to a usage-based billing model on June 1, replacing its existing system of fixed subscriptions supplemented by premium request limits. As reported last week, GitHub suspended new sign-ups for several of its Copilot subscription tiers as it faced a surge in demand […]
Embracing the MCP Suck: Taming the Wild West of AI Protocols
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is moving faster than the developer community can keep up with, racing past its original design parameters and leaving teams scrambling to build clients that can match its pace. The result is an ecosystem where the protocol itself keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and where the tooling, conventions and security […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com 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 […]
Agentic AI for Defense: How Checkmarx Turns Security into a Coding Partner
“AI-powered” has become the default label for every security tool on the market. But there’s a meaningful difference between a tool that uses AI to generate alerts after the fact and one that actively participates in development, preventing vulnerabilities as code is written. That difference is what separates reactive AI from agentic AI. And it […]
AI Agents in DevOps: Hype vs. Reality in Production Pipelines
The demos look super cool! An AI agent detects a failing deployment, rolls it back, opens a GitHub issue, and notifies Slack — all before the on-call engineer has finished reading the alert. If you’ve been following the DevOps tooling space over the last 18 months, you’ve probably seen some version of this pitch. But […]
DevOps Experience 2026: The DevOps Community Confronts the Agentic AI Race
Agentic AI is rapidly entering DevOps pipelines, platform engineering platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. DevOps Experience 2026 brings the community together to decide which tools matter, how they should be governed and what comes next. The DevOps ecosystem is entering one of its most consequential transitions since the rise of CI/CD. Across the industry, vendors are […]
Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI
Grafana Labs debuts Grafana 13, a specialized AI application observability platform, and an MCP-powered AI agent at GrafanaCON 2026 to streamline telemetry across complex cloud-native environments.
Coralogix Taps Skyflow to Anonymize Log Data Using Tokens
Coralogix and Skyflow have allied to protect sensitive log data that DevOps teams might inadvertently expose while investigating incidents or as data is shared with downstream applications. Skyflow has developed a platform that instead of eliminating or masking sensitive data applies tokens to enable that data to be searchable and auditable while preserving privacy. Coralogix […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com 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 […]
Claude Code Routines: Anthropic’s Answer to Unattended Dev Automation
Anthropic’s Claude Code Routines let dev teams automate scheduled tasks, GitHub events, and API-triggered workflows from managed cloud infrastructure.
OpenAI Upgrades Its Agents SDK With Sandboxing and a New Model Harness
OpenAI’s updated Agents SDK adds sandboxing and a model-native harness, giving enterprises a more controlled way to build and deploy long-horizon AI agents.
From Code to Cloud: How Full-Stack Developers are Taking Over DevOps
Full-stack developers are taking on DevOps, using CI/CD, Docker and Terraform to own the software lifecycle from code to cloud.
FinOps Isn’t Slowing You Down — It’s Fixing Your Pipeline
Stop firefighting cloud costs weeks after deployment. Learn how to “shift cost left” by integrating cost estimates and policy-as-code directly into your DevOps workflows using tools like Terraform and GitHub.
GitHub Copilot Pulls Drawstring On Tighter Developer Usage Limits
New limits for GitHub Copilot come as no surprise. To roll out over the next few weeks, at the time of writing, two usage limit restrictions will come into place.
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com 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.
DBmaestro Introduces Agentic Database DevOps with MCP Server
Transforming Natural Language into Governed Platform Workflows Orlando, FL, April 7, 2026 – DBmaestro, the leading database DevSecOps platform, today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making DBmaestro the first database DevOps platform purpose-built for agentic AI workflows. The DBmaestro MCP server exposes the company’s industry-leading database release automation, source control, […]
Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Investments in Observability
A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said […]
Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data
Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments. Version 2.16 of the platform adds support for a set of real user monitoring (RUM) and service level objective (SLO) dashboards, an ability to correlate changes made to any […]
VibeCode Meets DevOps: Accelerating Low-Code Innovation
AI-assisted low-code tools like VibeCode speed app development, but DevOps teams must ensure security, quality and CI/CD integration.
Why Code Validation is the Next Frontier
Shared staging environments were never designed for a world where dozens of changes land in a codebase every hour. Yet most engineering teams still depend on them as the primary checkpoint before production. Alan Shimel and Arjun Iyer, CEO of Signadot, dig into why that model is falling apart and what needs to replace it. […]
Giving AI Agents the Keys to Real Infrastructure
AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations. The volume of AI-generated code is growing rapidly, but without a reliable way to validate that code against real production environments, teams are left choosing between slowing down […]
Developers Using Anthropic Claude Code Hit by Token Drain Crisis
Anthropic’s Claude Code users report Max tier quotas exhausting in under 20 minutes. Explore the “Cache-22” of prompt caching, session limits, and why AI coding “opacity” is stalling developer workflows.
AWS Makes Pair of AI Agents to Automate DevOps Tasks Available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to manage DevOps workflows and conduct penetration tests generally available. Neha Goswami, director of Agentic DevOps at AWS, said AWS DevOps Agent provides software engineering teams with an always-available assistant that can automatically optimize application reliability and performance in addition to automating […]