The AI Agent Race Is On. But Are We Watching the Right Race?
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and a growing field of challengers are competing to define the future of software development. A new Techstrong special report examines who is ahead, how the race should be measured and what enterprises need to consider before placing their bets. Which AI coding agent is winning? It sounds […]
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 […]
Beyond Log Search: What We Learned Building a RAG-Based Incident Diagnosis System
A RAG-based AIOps framework can cut incident diagnosis time by grounding LLM reasoning in real runbooks, tickets and postmortems, improving root-cause accuracy while giving SREs source-backed answers they can trust
Transforming Mainframe Recovery
Moving beyond disaster recovery, organizations can ensure business-critical mainframe environments. Over decades, the mainframe has earned a reputation for being synonymous with reliability. Many enterprise organizations continue to rely on the mainframe precisely because of the redundancy, automatic recovery, and availability that leads to “nine nines” reliability or 31.56 milliseconds of unplanned annual downtime per […]
AI Agents Are Writing Code Faster Than Anyone Can Review It. Tessl Is Betting On Standards To Close That Gap
Every team that has turned coding agents loose on real work has run into the same wall. The agents write fast. They write a lot. And somewhere between the tenth and twentieth pull request of the day, the humans responsible for reviewing that code start falling behind. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the operating reality […]
GitHub Sharpens CodeQL’s Eye on Actions Workflows and Modern JavaScript
GitHub Actions pipelines have become one of the quieter attack surfaces in software development. They pull in third-party actions, cache dependencies, and pass secrets between jobs, often without anyone reviewing the workflow file as closely as they’d review application code. That gap is exactly where cache-poisoning and output-clobbering attacks live, and it’s why GitHub keeps […]
What It Really Takes to Run OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry solved a real problem. Before it, every APM vendor had you install a proprietary agent, which meant switching vendors meant re-instrumenting everything. OTel gave engineering teams a vendor-neutral way to generate traces, metrics, and logs once and send them wherever they wanted. That part of the pitch is true, and open-source deserves credit for […]
Why Self-Healing Tests Need a Deployment Gate
When an end-to-end test fails after a front-end change, the repair often looks routine. A class name changed. A button moved. A selector that used to be unique now matches two elements. A self-healing system inspects the page, proposes a new locator, reruns the test, and gets a green result. That green result is useful, […]
Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival
AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into a market long dominated by GitHub. The rollout arrived as GitHub suffered a major outage lasting more than six hours, disrupting pull requests, […]
Harness Adds AI Agents to Automate DevSecOps Workflows at Machine Speed
Harness today added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents and a virtual patching capability to its portfolio to automate DevSecOps workflows at a time when the number of vulnerabilities being discovered in code continues to exponentially increase. The AI agents include one that has been added to the static application security testing (SAST) tool that Harness […]
Claude Code’s Temporary Usage Boost Expires Tonight. Here’s What Actually Changes
Anthropic’s temporary 50% increase to Claude Code weekly usage limits expires August 19, reducing available capacity for developers and DevOps teams without lowering subscription prices.
Adronite Unveils AI Coding Tool Based on Embedded Context Engine
Adronite launches Codistry, an AI coding tool that uses a context engine to map codebases, reduce token usage and generate more production-ready code.
Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries
Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and expanded evaluation triggers. Alison Sickelka, vice president of product for Cloudsmith, said these additions to the platform will make it simpler to prevent […]
Deterministic Robots, Agentic Reasoning: Balancing Reliability and Flexibility in Software Test Automation
Summary: Scott Robohn explores how UiPath Test Cloud mitigates the “release gap” caused by rapid, AI-driven development by offering a platform that blends a combination of deterministic automation, AI agents, and human oversight. By distinguishing between deterministic “robots” for efficient, cost-effective regression and flexible “agents” for complex reasoning, the platform empowers quality engineers to use […]
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 […]
Dynatrace Acquires Arize as AI Agents Deepen the Observability Challenge
Dynatrace announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire AI observability company Arize in a $915 million cash and stock transaction. Rick McConnell, CEO of Dynatrace, said the company expects demand for AI observability will keep growing as more AI systems move into production. He said acquiring Arize would speed up Dynatrace’s roadmap, expand its developer […]
GitHub Copilot’s Latest Update Bets on Model Choice, Not Model Loyalty
GitHub’s latest Copilot updates add Kimi K3, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Agent Plugins 1.0, model switching, CLI improvements, and local Ollama support.
Treat Business Workflow Changes Like Deployments
Business automation often reaches production without the release discipline applied to application code. A routing rule changes, an approval threshold moves, or an integration starts writing to a new system. The edit may happen in a visual builder instead of a repository, but its blast radius is still real: orders can duplicate, customers can receive […]
Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release
Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor’s extension host. The release, which rolled out August 12, moves agent execution into what Microsoft calls the Agent Host, a standalone process built on […]
Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data
Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]
ProjectDiscovery Brings Open Source AI Testing to Vulnerability Discovery
ProjectDiscovery has made available an autonomous security testing platform that leverages an open source artificial intelligence (AI) testing framework to detect and validate vulnerabilities at a lower total cost. Company CEO Rishi Sharma said version 1.0 of the Neo platform is also available via a cloud service that makes it possible for DevSecOps teams to […]
Reflex’s Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting
A newly open-sourced Python charting library, called XY, from Reflex offers an advantage few other charting tools provide: massive scalability. The library rethinks how to render a set of points on the computer screen, and opens new possibilities for using charts in daily workflows. Most Python charting libraries today, such as Plotly, Bokeh, or Matplotlib, […]
Where Agents Belong in Enterprise Testing: What I Took Away from UiPath Test Cloud
Introduction During a recent UiPath Test Cloud showcase with Tech Field Day, I had a chance to look past the usual “AI can automate testing” message and think about how agents might fit into a real enterprise delivery process. As a Cloud Solutions Architect with a DevOps mindset, I tend to look beyond whether a […]