Taste, Discernment, and Judgment Have Become Must-Have Engineering Skills
AI coding agents make code generation cheap, shifting engineering value toward standards, deterministic quality gates, contextual review and human judgment about what should ship.
QA Automation Frameworks for Enterprise Applications
Modern enterprise applications demand testing strategies that can keep pace with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, and increasingly complex deployment pipelines. Traditional manual testing approaches often become a bottleneck as engineering teams scale their applications and release software more frequently. This article explores the essential building blocks of an enterprise-grade QA automation framework, focusing on maintainability, […]
GitHub Slams the Brakes on Private Vulnerability Reports
Drowning in AI-generated bug reports? GitHub has a radical answer: Stop accounts from reporting them. GitHub’s new limits on bug reports aren’t a solution to the AI bug-report flood. Anything but! They’re an admission that the traditional security-disclosure workflow, with human maintainers in the loop, simply doesn’t scale. The scarce resource is no longer discovering […]
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 […]
Open Source Mod Brings Rate Limits, Costs and CI Status Into View for Claude Code Users
Claude Statuspane gives developers real-time visibility into Claude Code context use, rate limits, costs and CI status, highlighting a growing need for agent observability.
The DevOps Standard Gives Teams a Shared Model for Software Delivery
A release can pass every pipeline check and still leave an organization uncertain about whether to proceed. Security evidence may exist in another system, the recovery plan may be incomplete, and nobody may own the final decision. The difficulty lies in how the delivery system connects its capabilities and responsibilities. The new DEVOPS INSTITUTE Official […]
IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall
Plenty of enterprises want AI coding agents. Fewer are willing to send their source code to someone else’s cloud to get them. That tension has slowed adoption at banks, insurers, government agencies and other organizations that build software under strict rules about where code and data can live. IBM is betting a self-hosted option will […]
AWS AI Agent Surfaces Recommendations to Optimize Cloud Computing Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that surfaces recommendations to optimize cost, security, performance and resilience based on the business objectives an organization defines. Jill Fariss, vice president of AWS Support, said the AWS Well-Architected Agent generates code that can be implemented via a command line […]
Introducing Futurum Media: Why Futurum, Why Now?
Techstrong, Tech Field Day and Visible Impact come together, backed by the research, intelligence and expertise of The Futurum Group.
Survey Surfaces Sharp Increase in Amount of Code Written by AI
A global survey of 705 developers and IT leaders finds 42% of respondents reporting that artificial intelligence (AI) now writes at least half their code, with only 21% of developers now spending more than half their week writing new code from scratch. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the survey also finds […]
Perforce Applies Machine Learning to Generate Synthetic Data for App Testing
Perforce Software has added a tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for application development teams to generate synthetic data for application testing purposes. Mayank Ahluwalia, a senior product manager for Perforce Delphix, said Delphix Synthetic Data makes use of machine learning algorithms to generate synthetic data for specific use cases. It […]
AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a benchmark that can be used to test whether a model can distinguish real vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is actually safe. The Deception Benchmark was created following an evaluation of the capabilities of 12 models from five different providers. In all, the benchmark includes 14,822 samples […]
Git 2.56 Takes Aim at Messy Merges, Slow Diffs and Branch Sprawl
Git 2.56 improves merge safety, speeds up large-repository operations and adds cleanup tools that could prove especially useful for AI coding agents and busy DevOps teams.
env zero Previews Control Plane for Agentic DevOps Workflows
env zero’s EZ Control introduces an agentic DevOps control plane that detects infrastructure drift, applies policy-driven remediation and keeps automated changes attributable, reversible and auditable.
Keeping Humans Accountable as AI Agents Take On the SDLC
Ming Wu joins Alan Shimel to explain governed agent loops, shared context and traceability across AI-assisted development, with people remaining accountable for the results.
Headless DevOps Gives AI Agents Access to Delivery Workflows
Federico Larsen joins Alan Shimel to examine agent-accessible delivery workflows, API and MCP interfaces, and the testing and security checks needed for headless DevOps.
Docker Introduces Open Sandbox Kit Spec for AI Agent Permissions
AI agents are getting good at probing the boundaries developers put around them. Their ability to improvise makes them hard to contain. “You ask for something in a very high-level, vague-at-best way. You walk away, and you come back to a remarkable pile of mostly working software. But you then realize that you gave a […]
Survey: Lack of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security Runs High
A survey of 400 platform and security engineers in the U.S and United Kingdom (UK), finds nearly three quarters (73%) are either only moderately confident (58%) or not confident (15%) in the ability of their existing tools for managing software artifacts to prevent attacks against their organization’s software supply chain. Conducted by Cloudsmith, a provider […]
DHH Declares End of Hand-Writing Code at Rails World 2026
Controversial developer David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) announced last week at Rails World 2026 that the end of handwritten code is upon us, calling it the modern era’s “Brownie” moment. The moment to which he referred was when Kodak released its Brownie camera that forever changed the trajectory of photography. In this case, the Brownie […]
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 […]
Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost
Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]
Dependency Mocking Approach That Gets More Accurate as Your Services Deploy More Often
Traffic-based dependency mocking turns frequent upstream deployments into opportunities to refresh mocks from real behavior and reduce integration test drift.
Why Old Azure DevOps Releases Survive a Pipeline Cutover
Old Azure DevOps Classic releases can retain retired deployment tasks, Helm names, image paths and variables long after a pipeline cutover, leaving stale redeploy paths active.