Claude Platform Now Sends Agent Traces Straight to Your Observability Stack
Anthropic is making it easier to see what Claude-based agents do in production. The company has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform. Developers can now send traces from the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs to the observability tools they already use. The feature launched in public beta on October […]
Apple Brings Whole-Program C++ Hardening to Clang
Apple has added a new tool to the upstream LLVM project that could change how teams harden large C++ codebases. The clang-ssaf-driver, merged into LLVM Git this week, analyzes an entire project as it builds and then rewrites source code based on what it finds. The driver is part of Clang’s Scalable Static Analysis Framework […]
One Bill for Grok, Cursor, and X: What SpaceX’s Bundle Means for Developers
SpaceX wants to be the single line item for your AI coding tool, your chatbot, and your social media account. On October 12, SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI), the AI unit formerly known as xAI, introduced The X Subscription. It folds Grok, the Grok Bot agent, the Cursor AI code editor, and X Premium into one […]
BAND Desktop Application Streamlines Management of AI Coding Agents
BAND today made available a desktop application through which application developers can more easily manage and collaborate with multiple coding agents. Company CEO Arick Goomanovsky said the BAND for Developers application, in addition to providing more context and coordinating handoffs between disparate AI agent sessions, also makes it simpler for developers to intervene whenever an […]
GitHub Narrows App Permissions to Pull Teams Off Classic PATs
GitHub is giving DevOps teams more ways to limit an automation job to only the access it needs. A batch of GitHub Apps updates released Oct. 13 adds narrower permissions, relaxes a long-standing install restriction for repository administrators, and makes it easier to move users to expiring tokens. GitHub says the goal is to help […]
npm Puts a 48-Hour Clock on Unused Trusted Publishing Configurations
GitHub has added an expiration date to unused npm trusted publishing configurations. Any configuration that doesn’t complete a successful publish within 48 hours of creation now expires and can no longer authorize a release. It’s a small change. But it closes a gap that matters to anyone who publishes packages from a CI/CD pipeline. How […]
Anthropic Builds Its Own Source Control After AI Agents Outgrow Git
Anthropic has moved its internal monorepo off Git and onto a version control system it built from scratch. The reason is simple. Its AI agents now write code faster than Git-based infrastructure can handle it. In a post on its engineering blog, the company said it averaged about 2,500 merged code changes a day in […]
AI Is Automating Code. The Job Is Engineering
AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.
Cloudflare Brings the Deno Team In to Make Self-Hosted Workers Practical
Cloudflare brings Deno’s team aboard to expand self-hosted Workers and Durable Objects as Deno Deploy winds down and runtime support enters its final year.
LocalStack Extends Emulation Reach to Microsoft Azure Services
LocalStack has made available a public beta of its platform that enables application developers to emulate Microsoft Azure cloud services on their local machines. Colin Neagle, head of marketing for LocalStack, said LocalStack now enables application developers to build software locally that can run across more than 40 Azure services. Following initial support for cloud […]
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 […]
The Agent Failure Your Approval Gate Can’t Catch
An agent that does the wrong thing leaves evidence — a bad diff, a malformed record, a customer complaint. An agent that does nothing and reports success leaves a green checkmark, and green is the one signal your incident process is built to trust. Worry more about the second failure, because everything a DevOps team […]
OllyGarden Extends AI Agent to Identify Instrumentation Gaps
OllyGarden expands its Rose AI agent with Minimum Viable Instrumentation to identify observability gaps, optimize OpenTelemetry data and reduce telemetry costs.
New Relic Debuts Command-Line Observability Tool for Developers and AI Agents
New Relic has unveiled Ground Truth CLI, a command-line tool that enables software developers and AI agents to analyze system performance and verify whether technical issues have been resolved without needing to use dashboards. The release reflects a big shift in enterprise IT as AI agents take on more advanced troubleshooting tasks. Traditional observability dashboards […]
Aditi Consulting Achieves Anthropic Select Tier After Putting Claude Into Production Across Its Business and Client Environments
The milestone follows Aditi’s broader effort to reshape its business, client delivery, and engineering workforce. BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 6, 2026 — Aditi Consulting has achieved Select Tier status in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, Anthropic’s program for consultancies and specialized AI firms that help enterprises adopt and implement Claude. The designation follows results from work already […]
Harness Acquires Augment Code Assets to Expand Reach into AI Coding
Harness today added an artificial intelligence (AI) coding offering to its portfolio after revealing it acquired select assets from Augment Code. The Harness Cosmos Software Factory is based on Cosmos, a set of AI coding agents, an Auggie command line interface (CLI), a Code Context Engine and other related technologies originally developed by Augment Code. […]
Quality Debt Is the New Technical Debt
For years, we talked about technical debt as something that quietly piles up while teams ship fast and skip cleanup. You take a shortcut now, but you pay for it later, usually at the worst possible time. A newer version of that problem is showing up in software delivery, driven by AI coding agents and […]
Coding Agents Broke Git’s Scaling Math. GitHub Is Rebuilding to Keep Up
GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure as AI coding agents drive billions of commits, promising up to 35x faster writes while exposing new DevOps bottlenecks.
Three Truths About AI SRE
The current enthusiasm for AI in Site Reliability Engineering (AI SRE) is well-founded. We are seeing incredible advancements in agents that can ingest alerts, parse logs, and propose rapid solutions to outages. They are becoming increasingly confident when it comes to suggesting bug fixes, patching vulnerabilities, and helping coordinate around incidents. But there is a […]
Gremlin Launches Foresight AI to Proactively Fix Reliability Risks
The pioneers of Chaos Engineering built Foresight AI on top of a decade of real-world data around how systems fail and recover. Gremlin Foresight AI identifies and fixes reliability concerns before they become incidents, empowering enterprises to move confidently at AI speed. DENVER, CO — October 7, 2026 — Gremlin, the company founded by Amazon […]
DevOps Has Always Been Hard to Define. Does a Standard Help?
The new DevOps Standard deserves a serious reading. Its lasting value will depend on whether it helps organizations apply shared principles as people and agents take on different responsibilities.
Federated Query at Petabyte Scale: A Deployment Pattern for a Governed AI-Agent Data Layer
A federated query architecture can reduce data duplication and latency while creating a governed, auditable data layer that enterprise AI agents can safely access.
Getting to Reliable AI-Driven Development
To truly transform software delivery with AI, organizations must embrace a spec-driven approach. By grounding AI in clear specifications, this approach prevents AI from generating hallucinations while optimizing token costs by 8x–12x lower. The use of AI in software development is now practically universal. According to the 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering Decision Maker Survey from […]