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Video Interviews

AI Raises the Stakes for Observability Engineering

Honeycomb’s Liz Fong-Jones joins Alan Shimel to explain why observability engineering has become the real bottleneck in AI-assisted development — and how agent-assisted workflows are reshaping the loop.

Alan Shimel · Aug 12, 2026
Video Interviews

The Verification Gap Behind Every AI-Generated Release

Sauce Labs CEO Prince Kohli joins Mike Vizard to unpack why AI code generation is racing ahead of testing — and why 80 percent of organizations have already traced a production incident back to AI-generated code.

Mike Vizard · Aug 12, 2026
AI

Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code

A survey of 400 business and engineering executives finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or customer-impacting defect to code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the past 12 months. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Sauce Labs, a provider of an application testing platform, the survey finds 83% of respondents work […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 12, 2026
AI

The Rise of AI-Native DevOps: How AI Is Reshaping Software Delivery in 2026

For years, DevOps had a pretty straightforward mission: help teams ship reliable software faster by getting development and operations folks working together. Tools like automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and better observability have all been key pieces of the puzzle. But now, things are shifting again. This time, artificial intelligence is changing […]

Sannan Ali · Aug 11, 2026
Blogs

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 […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 10, 2026
AI

Microsoft’s New Testing Agent Tackles the Trust Gap in AI-Generated Code

AI coding assistants write code fast. Whether that code can be trusted is a separate question, and it’s becoming a more urgent one. Surveys this year put average developer trust in AI-generated output at just above the midpoint of a five-point scale, and more than half of developers admit they ship AI code without testing […]

Tom Smith · Aug 7, 2026
AI

AWS Extends DevSecOps Reach to AI Coding Tools from Anthropic and OpenAI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at the Black Hat USA conference revealed it is working with both Anthropic and OpenAI to integrate their respective coding tools with a service it has developed that makes available artificial intelligence (AI) agents to help application developers write more secure code. Launched earlier this year, the AWS Continuum […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 6, 2026
Blogs

Sandbox Testing for API-Heavy Systems: What Changes When You Don’t Own the Dependency

Sandbox testing works well when your team controls both sides of the integration. You define the service, you define the mock, you know exactly what the sandbox should return. That setup holds up fine for internal microservices and first-party APIs. It starts to break down when you don’t own the dependency. Payment processors, identity providers, […]

Sancharini Panda · Aug 5, 2026
AI

AWS Adds Agentic Workspace to Kiro AI Coding Tool

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added an open source workspace for its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that enables application developers to asynchronously assign tasks to an AI agent that is capable of autonomously performing tasks, such as testing code as it is created, in a way that maintains context across multiple sessions. […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 5, 2026
Blogs

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 […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 3, 2026
Blogs

Why Log Monitoring Is the Missing Link in Most Incident Response Workflows

Modern engineering teams have invested heavily in observability. Dashboards are populated, alerts are configured, on-call rotations are set. Yet when production incidents occur, the average time to resolution hasn’t dropped nearly as fast as the tooling has improved. The reason, in many cases, comes down to one overlooked gap: logs aren’t being used the way […]

Ashwini Dave · Jul 31, 2026
AI

Tricentis Acquires Tabnine to Gain Knowledge Graph for AI Testing Agents

Tricentis today revealed it is acquiring Tabnine to gain access to a knowledge graph that will be used to provide context to AI agents that have been trained to automate a range of testing tasks. Once the acquisition is complete, Tricentis plans to integrate the knowledge graph developed by Tabnine, dubbed the Enterprise Context Engine, […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 30, 2026
AI

Validation Debt That Your Dashboards Are Not Showing

The gap between how fast AI writes code and how reliably teams verify it is quietly becoming a balance-sheet risk. Enterprise leaders are learning to measure it before it forces repayment. Every engineering organization that adopted AI coding assistants over the past two years has quietly taken on a liability that never appears on the […]

Saqib Jan · Jul 30, 2026
AI

OpenAI Open Sources Codex Security CLI for the Merge Path

OpenAI has released its Codex Security command-line interface and software development kit as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license, providing a new way to bring its AI security scanner into development workflows. The CLI can scan repositories, review staged and unstaged changes before a commit, compare findings across scans and export results for […]

Jaime Hampton · Jul 29, 2026
Video Interviews

AI Code Generation Raises New Quality Risks

Mladen Lazic, CTO of Scopic, joins Mike Vizard to explain why AI-generated code is outpacing review capacity — and why independent QA agents that never see the source code are becoming essential.

Mike Vizard · Jul 29, 2026
Video Interviews

Why Agentic Coding Needs Governance at Scale

CloudBees CEO Moritz Plassnig joins Alan Shimel to explain why agentic coding is exposing every unfinished piece of the DevOps transformation — and why AI-scale delivery needs AI-scale governance.

Alan Shimel · Jul 29, 2026
Blogs

DevOps Is Drowning in Updates—and Engineering Is Paying the Price

DevOps used to be a manageable rhythm: several core tools, a handful of respected blogs, and a few incident write-ups that made everyone slightly uncomfortable in a useful way. Now it feels like a firehose aimed directly at the on-call rotation. DevOps teams now have more information than they can reasonably track. Critical updates are […]

Alex Vakulov · Jul 28, 2026
Sponsored Content

The Anatomy of a $900,000 Validation Bill

A 50-developer team shipping at an agentic pace will spend roughly $900,000 this year on AI and developer tooling costs. Most of the engineering leaders I’ve talked to saw the compute costs coming. What they didn’t anticipate was where the rest of the bill was hiding. The culprit is a timing problem. Frontier models price […]

Rob Zuber · Jul 28, 2026
PulseMeter

Adoption and Fragmentation of AI in CI/CD—and Operational Readiness

In today’s enterprise software delivery environment, AI has moved from a distant possibility to an active area of experimentation across the CI/CD pipeline. The conversation around AI in software delivery often runs ahead of the underlying reality, and most organizations are still working through what it takes to operationalize AI inside delivery architectures that were […]

Guy Currier · Jul 28, 2026
AI

Investments in DevOps Tools and Platforms Start to Accelerate in AI Era

A global survey of 839 IT decision-makers conducted by the Futurum Group finds 54% now work for organizations that use AI across more than half of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), with 40% reporting AI already generates the majority of production code merged in the last 90 days. Within the next three years, a total […]

Mike Vizard · Jul 27, 2026
Blogs

These are 10 CI/CD Pipeline Mistakes That Slow Down Engineering Teams

Continuous software delivery in the digital age has come to depend on CI/CD pipelines. They enable engineering teams to rapidly develop, test, and deploy code while keeping it highly usable and consistent across environments. CI/CD pipelines, however, can themselves become a source of friction as systems start at a small scale and become more complex. […]

Sandeep Kumar Khandelwal · Jul 24, 2026