Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery
Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]
What I Learned Building Cloud-Portable Services Across Multiple Providers
Multi-cloud strategies often stumble over provider-specific behavior. A layered abstraction built on official SDKs can normalize differences while preserving access to valuable native capabilities.
The Observability Tax: When Monitoring Costs Exceed Downtime Costs
Observability costs can spiral when teams collect more telemetry than they actually use. A more mature approach prioritizes the data that directly improves incident detection, diagnosis and recovery.
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 […]
GitLab Tightens Rate Limits as Coding Agents Drive Demand
GitLab is introducing new rate limits for its cloud-based DevOps platform as growing demand from AI agents and automated development tools increases pressure on its infrastructure. The changes, which begin October 19, will restrict the volume of requests users can send to GitLab.com based on their subscription plans. Free-tier customers and users making unauthenticated requests […]
Claude Code Adds AGENTS.md Fallback, Cutting Instruction File Sprawl
Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md, giving development teams a shared instruction format across multiple AI coding agents and reducing configuration drift.
GitHub Separates Who Writes Code From Who Runs Your CI
GitHub’s new workflow execution protections let teams control who and what can trigger Actions workflows, reducing CI/CD attack paths and tightening pipeline security.
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers
A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code. As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons largely from open-source code. So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and […]
Splunk Open Sources Token Meter Tool for Application Developers
Splunk’s open-source Token Meter gives developers real-time visibility into AI coding agent activity, token consumption and estimated costs across tools including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
IT Outsourcing Versus In-House Development
The debate isn’t new — but the stakes are. In 2026, the gap between companies that get this decision right and those that don’t is measured in product cycles, burn rate, and competitive ground lost to faster-moving teams. Most engineering leaders frame the question as a cost problem. It isn’t. It’s a capability and velocity […]
Anthropic Adds a Coordinator to Claude Projects for Running AI Work in Parallel
Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Projects coordinates parallel Claude Code sessions, delegates work across branches and brings the results back through familiar pull-request review workflows.
How I Consolidated Duplicate Delivery Pipelines With Parameters and Build Tags
Two modules in a repository had near-identical Azure DevOps build and release definitions. A third would have required another pair. The delivery chain used five definitions: one change decider, two builds, and two releases. I consolidated it into one decider, one generic build, and one release with a deployment stage for each onboarded module. The […]
Splunk Preps Second Open Source LLM for Telemetry Data
Splunk is gearing up to make an artificial intelligence (AI) model for analyzing log data available on Hugging Face under an open source license. Additionally, Splunk at its .conf26 conference this week revealed it is developing a Universal Collector, expected to be available in beta in 2027, to streamline collection of all types of telemetry […]
Can Rust Improve Real Django API Performance? Testing Django-Bolt Beyond Synthetic Benchmarks
Django-Bolt uses Rust to accelerate Django request handling, but real-world gains depend on database work, authentication, serialization and where an API actually spends its time.
The Three Tiers of Agentic Incident Response: When to Trust AI Autonomy
A three-tier model for agentic incident response balances AI automation with human oversight, matching autonomy to risk, reversibility, blast radius and diagnostic confidence.
The Most Dangerous Reliability Failures Aren’t Component Failures
A production provisioning failure shows why reliability problems can emerge from interactions between healthy components, and how system-level constraints and feedback can prevent them.
Factory Raises $200M as It Builds Agents Across the Software Lifecycle
Enterprise coding agent startup Factory announced it has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last funding round five months ago. Founded in 2023, Factory develops AI agents for software engineering teams. Its platform is designed for work across the full software development lifecycle, including building, testing […]
LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Gain SaaS App Emulation Platform
LocalStack this week revealed it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of an emulator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that is used to build custom applications for those platforms. Colin Neagle, vice president of marketing for LocalStack, said the emulators WonderTwin AI has developed will be integrated into the company’s namesake emulation platform that application development […]
Stop Chasing 100% Test Coverage: Why DevOps Teams Need to Test Smarter, Not More
Every software team eventually runs into the same question: How much testing is enough? For years, the default answer has been “more.” More automated tests. More regression suites. More environments. More devices. But as applications become more complex and release cycles continue to accelerate, testing everything simply isn’t realistic, even with the support of AI. […]
Hybrid Software Development: Benefits and Challenges
Fortunately, companies do not always have to choose between in-house vs outsourcing. Instead they can adopt a hybrid development strategy, which combines the capacities of internal and external IT teams. This approach allows companies to capitalize on the strengths of both traditional software development models, while offsetting their respective limitations, thereby streamlining project execution. However, […]
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 […]
DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling
Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends. They compartmentalize DevOps principles to […]
GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure
GitHub’s August 2026 report details five outages tied to Actions and Copilot growth outpacing infrastructure. Here’s what platform teams should know.