The DevOps Impact of API-First Development
Balaji Raghavan, chief technology officer at Postman, breaks down key findings from the company’s 7th Annual State of the API Report — offering an inside look at how APIs are reshaping software development and DevOps practices worldwide. Raghavan notes that APIs have evolved from tactical integration tools into strategic enablers of digital transformation. According to […]
Vibe Coding vs. Spec-Driven Development: Finding Balance in the AI Era
David Yanacek, Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Agentic AI, dives into the rise of vibe coding versus traditional spec-driven development. As generative AI continues to transform how code is created, developers are moving faster than ever, but not always with the same level of structure, review, or intent that defined earlier software engineering practices. Yanacek explains […]
Why Your SLO Dashboard is Lying: Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics in Production
Discover how redefining service level objectives (SLOs) around business impact — not vanity uptime metrics — reduced incidents by 75% and saved $2.3M in lost revenue.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps brings you a weekly jobs report, including, this week, opportunities at Amentum, Oliver James and Morgan Stanley Services Group.
AIOps for SRE — Using AI to Reduce On-Call Fatigue and Improve Reliability
Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become an emergent niche practice invented at Google to become a foundation of contemporary enterprise performance worldwide. With the continued growth of microservices, a multi-cloud infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines adopted by organizations, the operational surface area has increased to the extent that human personnel cannot monitor and manage it in real time. The effectiveness […]
AWS to Help Fund Open VSX Registry Hosted by Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation this week revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing funds needed to strengthen the reliability, performance and security of the infrastructure used to make the Open VSX Registry, an online marketplace for Visual Studio Code extensions. Like other AI coding tools, the Kiro tool developed by AWS relies heavily on Visual […]
Qovery Adds Multiple AI Agents to DevOps Automation Platform
Qovery has added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps automation platform that, in addition to responding to natural language prompts and executing complex operations, also anticipates the next step in a workflow. Company CEO Romaric Philogène said the AI DevOps Copilot family of AI agents automate a range of tasks, including provisioning environments, […]
5 Pillars of Successful Web App Development
Today, building a high-quality and competitive web application requires more than just clean code, a user-friendly UX and good development practices. The success of such a project also hinges on creating a strategic approach and prioritizing components that bring long-term value to both your business and your customer. The following five aspects — security, performance, user-centricity, scalability and cross-platform compatibility — define an efficient, future-proof app that […]
Kong Adds MCP Support to Tool for Designing and Testing APIs
Kong Inc. has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) support into Insomnia 12, enabling DevOps teams to design, test, and secure MCP clients and servers for AI-driven APIs—reducing misconfigurations and enhancing compliance in rapidly evolving AI environments.
How AIOps is Revolutionizing DevOps Monitoring in the Cloud Era
As cloud-native systems grow more complex, traditional monitoring falls short. AIOps brings AI, automation, and predictive insights to DevOps—enabling real-time detection, diagnosis, and resolution across distributed environments for faster, smarter operations.
Is There Still a Difference Between DevOps and AIOps?
DevOps transformed software delivery through speed and collaboration. AIOps takes it further—adding AI-driven insight, anomaly detection, and intelligent automation. Together, they form the next evolution of IT operations: smart, adaptive, and self-healing pipelines.
Your Next Secrets Leak is Hiding in AI Coding Tools
AI coding tools are accelerating secrets sprawl in Kubernetes workflows. Learn where leaks happen and how platform teams can contain the risk.
How I Automated My Most Tedious Task and Unlocked Our Growth Strategy
Automating the Tedious: Unlocking Our Growth Strategy In my role, I analyze data and guide strategies, without getting lost in the weeds of manual data entry. However, a significant part of my workflow involved just that. We had a crucial data source that gave us a starting point — a list of company domains — […]
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 […]
How Data, Empathy and Visibility Are Redefining DevOps Maturity
Amy Carrillo Cotten shares her perspective on how DevOps teams are evolving in an era defined by AI acceleration, rapid release cycles, and shifting engineering priorities. Drawing from her experience leading engineering transformation initiatives, Cotten emphasized that while automation continues to drive efficiency, true DevOps maturity still depends on people, processes, and the right mindset. […]
Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Vulnerabilities in Code Generated by AI
A survey of 450 IT professionals in the U.S. and Europe finds 69% of organizations have discovered vulnerabilities in code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with 20% reporting there has been a serious incident as a result. Conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of Aikido Security, a provider of a platform of discovering vulnerabilities […]
AppOmni Open Sources Heisenberg Tool to Scan Pull Requests for Dependencies
AppOmni has made available an open source tool that automatically scans pull requests (PRs) to flag risky or newly published dependencies before they are merged. Dubbed Heisenberg, the tool can also be used to create a software bill of materials (SBOMs) that makes it easier to discover dependencies as code is being written. Yevhen Grinman, […]
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Impact AI Coding Tools Are Having on DevOps Workflows
A survey of 206 IT leaders and executives finds that, with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, more application development teams are devoting more time to reviewing rather than writing code. Conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) on behalf of Perforce, the survey finds 57% of developers now spend more time on code […]
End-to-End Visibility: The Role of Observability in Frontend and Backend Systems
Have disappointing slowdowns, elusive bugs, and misleading outages ever affected your digital system, even when traditional monitoring shows “all green”? Today’s users demand spontaneous experiences, but DevOps, SRE and software teams often struggle with limited visibility in giant front-end and back-end systems. Result? Customer dissatisfaction, reduction in uptime, and lost revenue. The Good News: End-to-end […]
BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS
BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]
From Cloud to Cognitive Infrastructure: How AI is Redefining the Next Frontier of SRE
As organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) workloads alongside traditional cloud systems, site reliability engineering (SRE) must evolve to manage an entirely new class of infrastructure — intelligent, hybrid and graphics processing unit (GPU)-driven. Infrastructure has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. We began with physical servers in local data centers, then virtualization improved efficiency […]
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 […]