FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026
In 2026, cloud cost overruns stop being finance’s problem and become an engineering responsibility. Here’s how treating cost as code finally makes FinOps work.
The Next DevOps Frontier: Governing Models, Agents and Code
Anaconda CEO David DeSanto explores what it takes to make AI-native development practical, secure and scalable for modern engineering teams. DeSanto reflects on his journey from leading product at GitLab to stepping into the CEO role at Anaconda, and why the next wave of software delivery will be shaped by the intersection of open source, […]
Yes, We Know AI Isn’t a Person
Let’s get the obvious out of the way right up front. AI isn’t a person. Thank you, Captain Obvious. We’re all on the same page. And yet, when we announced that AI is Techstrong’s “Person of the Year” for our Predict 2026 virtual event on January 15, a few folks felt compelled to remind us […]
Your AI Agents Have a Blind Spot: What DevOps Teams Need to Know About Cross-LLM Security
Explore the challenges of AI agents in DevOps pipelines, highlighting the importance of model-aware detection to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
Security Controls That Slow Teams Are Usually Poorly Designed
Discover strategies to enhance security controls in DevOps, emphasizing the shift from gates to guardrails and the importance of designing around real workflows.
Eficode Unifies Operations to Join AI Software Development Landgrab
The march to build comprehensive software application development platforms aligned and optimized for the AI-first era is running at a breakneck pace. Latest to join the current land grab and pledge allegiance to the delivery of high-value AI-driven outcomes is Helsinki, Finland-based Eficode. Pronounced (exactly as it sounds) Eficode in American English, but presumably given […]
Survey Sees Growing Interest in Switching Observability Platforms
A survey of 100 VP+ IT decision-makers published today finds 62% plan to increase spending on observability initiatives over the next 12 to 24 months, with only 4% planning to decrease spending. Conducted by LogicMonitor, a provider of a monitoring and observability platform, the survey also finds more than two-thirds (67%) are very likely or […]
Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Settings: Leveraging IoT and DevOps Practices for Maximum Uptime
In modern industry, keeping machines running nonstop is a challenge. Systems grow more complex each year, yet expectations for reliability never relax. Predictive maintenance has emerged as one of the most effective ways to meet that challenge, allowing teams to see trouble coming before it causes a shutdown. The approach depends heavily on two complementary […]
Best of 2025: CloudBees Moves to Unify Management of Multiple DevOps Platforms
CloudBees today launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for centralizing the management of multiple DevOps environments, including GitHub, GitLab and the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.
Best of 2025: Integrating Generative AI Into DevOps Pipelines
Generative AI, a subset of AI, is a new technology that can create content in different forms, such as text, images and videos. Integrating generative AI into DevOps practices can benefit an organization’s business processes. This article addresses the advantages, obstacles and opportunities concerning blending and integrating generative AI with DevOps. Understanding the Problem Organizations […]
Best of 2025: The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. Yet somehow, the infrastructure team is supposed to scale magically to keep up. Let’s be […]
Best of 2025: DevOps Evolution: From Movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era
DevOps isn’t dying – it’s evolving. That’s the perspective of Andi Grabner, who recently transitioned from DevOps Activist to Platform Engineering Advocate at Dynatrace. “The idea of DevOps is transforming. I agree that it has fulfilled its purpose, but the purpose is not over. It just shifts,” says Grabner. After nearly 20 years of DevOps, […]
Best of 2025: AI-Powered DevOps: Transforming CI/CD Pipelines for Intelligent Automation
DevOps practices are the core of contemporary organizational activities. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into DevOps practices can transform an organization’s mode of operations. Companies have increased efficiency in developing, testing and deploying software with this integration. Automating repetitive tasks eliminates the need for human supervision while enhancing reliability, scalability and efficiency. […]
Best of 2025: GitHub Copilot Evolves: Agent Mode and Multi-Model Support Transform DevOps Workflows
GitHub Copilot adds Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users, bringing agentic capabilities and multi-model choice that will revolutionize DevOps workflows.
Best of 2025: AI in Software Development: Productivity at the Cost of Code Quality?
New research analyzing 153 million lines of code reveals AI tools may accelerate development but potentially at the expense of maintainable, quality code.
Best of 2025: Five Trends That Will Drive Software Development in 2025
In 2025, developers will broaden the scope of how they use AI with promising new applications for reducing technical debt and improving security.
Best of 2025: Grok Studio: xAI’s New Collaborative Workspace Transforms AI-Assisted Development
Explore Grok Studio, xAI’s split-screen collaborative workspace with eal-time code execution, Google Drive integration, and free accessibility for all users.
Best of 2025: Semaphore Goes Open Source: A New Dawn for DevOps Professionals
A significant shift has occurred in the fast-evolving world of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Semaphore, a leading CI/CD platform, has announced its core platform is officially open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This move represents a pivotal moment for DevOps professionals worldwide, who have long struggled with the limitations of existing solutions. For […]
Best of 2025: OpenAI Codex: Transforming Software Development with AI Agents
OpenAI has launched Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent poised to revolutionize developers’ approaches to coding tasks. Powered by codex-1, a specialized version of OpenAI’s o3 model, Codex can work on multiple tasks simultaneously, offering developers an AI companion that understands their codebase and can handle a variety of software engineering responsibilities. What is Codex? […]
Best of 2025: The Future of DevOps: Key Trends, Innovations and Best Practices in 2025
DevOps has become a cornerstone of modern software development, bridging the gap between development and IT operations to create a seamless, efficient and agile approach to application delivery. Over the years, DevOps has evolved, and in 2025, is continuing to transform with the rise of cutting-edge technologies, new methodologies and a heightened focus on automation […]
Making the Case for AI in Testing, Security and Delivery—Not Just Coding
Harness CEO and co-founder Jyoti Bansal unpacks a core challenge facing modern software teams: while AI is dramatically increasing the amount of code being written, it is also putting unprecedented pressure on everything that happens after code is committed. Bansal argues that much of the industry’s AI focus has centered on the developer inner loop—AI-assisted […]
Sonar Adds Ability to Analyze Architecture of Applications to Code Analysis Tool
Sonar this week revealed it has added an ability to analyze the architecture of a software application to its SonarQube tool for analyzing code quality. Available in beta and scheduled to be made generally available in the first quarter, the addition to SonarQube promises to make it simpler to understand the actual structure of an […]
Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
Virtual care went from nice to have to must have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will continue: health-tech companies are predicting the telemedicine market will be $143.49 billion by 2025 (it will be $167.74 billion in 2025 and $584.99 […]