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 […]
From Software Supply Chains to AI Vulnerabilities: Why Neither Solves Enterprise Linux Security
For nearly a decade, cybersecurity has been dominated by one overarching concern: securing the software supply chain. Organizations invested heavily in Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), artifact signing, provenance frameworks, reproducible builds, and vulnerability scanners capable of identifying compromised dependencies before software reached production. The software supply chain became the industry’s focal point, accelerated by […]
A Semicolon in a Branch Name Was All It Took to Steal an AI Agent’s GitHub Token
AI coding agents don’t just suggest code anymore. Tools like OpenAI’s Codex spin up a real container, clone a real repository, and authenticate with a real GitHub credential to get the job done — which means every agent your team wires up is also a new privileged identity, holding real access, running with comparatively little […]
Your DevOps Pipeline Is Already a Sustainability Program
During my doctoral research on modern engineering practices and operational efficiency, one pattern kept surfacing that I did not expect to find. The engineering teams making the most measurable progress on sustainability were not the ones that had appointed green committees. They were the ones running tight DevOps discipline: right-sized fleets, lean pipelines, tuned alerting, […]
When AI Coding Agents Become Malware Delivery Systems
AI coding agents are becoming part of everyday development work. Developers use them to find libraries, configure projects, troubleshoot installation problems, and set up new tools. An agent can search GitHub, read project documentation, and run commands without the developer having to work through every step manually. That convenience is creating another security concern for […]
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 […]
Open Source Code Just as Secure as Proprietary Software—If You Manage It Right, Says CISA
Open source can be just as safe as proprietary software, though government agencies (and private enterprises) should take additional measures to secure it properly, according to a new guide published by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The report, “Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices,” provides with guidance to help agencies comply […]
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 […]
The Innovation Puzzle 2.0: Connecting Vision and Value
The tech landscape constantly evolves, making it tempting to chase every new trend. Ironically, in today’s business world, the word “innovation” has become almost synonymous with technology adoption. Yet after years of leading digital transformations, I’ve learned that sustainable innovation isn’t about having the latest technology—it’s about solving business problems and delivering measurable impact. In […]
Zero Trust Starts at the Code: Building Secure Systems with PKI and DevOps Automation
When a certificate expires, it can take down a production system, and teams usually only find out after something goes wrong. These issues are hard to catch because they rarely trigger alerts. Expired certificates often remain unnoticed in a config file or an old key until they cause trouble. Enterprise apps are no longer single, […]
Building CI/CD Pipelines for On-Prem Azure DevOps: What the Cloud Docs Don’t Tell You
The engineering that makes on-prem CI/CD reliable is invisible when it works. When it does not work, the failures are subtle and the documentation is thin.
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with Novee, an AI penetration testing platform provider, wrote about Cordyceps, an exploitable pattern in the open source supply chain that can allow attackers […]
Reliability Comes From the System, Not the Agent
One of the most common questions executives ask right now sounds straightforward: is the agent reliable enough yet? It feels like the right place to start, but the framing quietly points people in the wrong direction because it assumes something about reliability that has rarely been true in complex systems. When people ask whether an […]
Modernization Is Not Migration
Modernization worked only if the platform became easier to change, easier to understand and safer to run under pressure. That is not a philosophical position — it is a measurable one.
New Relic Adds Open Source Tool to Observe AI Coding
New Relic has made available an open source extension to its observability platform for coding tools at no additional cost. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said the New Relic AI Coding Observability capability will make it simpler for DevOps teams to centrally monitor usage of a diverse range of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Why Your Observability Stack Is Costing You More Than Your Cloud Bill
There’s a pattern playing out across engineering teams right now that nobody talks about openly: the tool meant to reduce operational complexity has quietly become one of the biggest line items on the infrastructure budget. Observability spending is out of control, and for most teams, it’s not because they’re monitoring too much. It’s because they’re […]
npm v12 Is Coming in July — Here’s What Developers Need to Do Now
For years, running npm install meant trusting that whatever code got pulled in would behave itself. That trust was often misplaced. Starting in July 2026, npm v12 changes the rules. Install scripts won’t run automatically anymore. Neither will dependencies be pulled from Git repos or remote URLs. All of it becomes opt-in. This is a […]
Security Flaw in Claude Code Illustrates the Risk of AI in Developer Workflows
AI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that could have enabled prompt injection attacks to expose CI/CD secrets, API keys, and credentials. As AI agents gain autonomy in development workflows, organizations must treat untrusted inputs as hostile and rethink CI/CD security models. Natural language is becoming executable code—and attackers know it.
When the Structure Becomes the Culture
Why micro teams and rotation reshape culture, not just throughput, in modern SRE. Most SRE leaders design teams around the systems they own. We designed ours around movement. We introduced micro teams expecting a throughput story: smaller groups, tighter scope, faster work. Some of that arrived. What we had not budgeted for was how much […]
The Flow Illusion: Why Transformation Feels Like Theatre
You’ve invested in the tools. Your teams have dashboards that track cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. You’ve likely even built a sophisticated, probabilistic roadmap. Yet, despite the data, it feels like theatre. The moment the workshop ends, that roadmap becomes a static slide deck, and teams remain paralyzed, waiting for you to update […]
IronWorm Malware Shares Shai-Hulud Traits, Takes Threat to ‘Next Level’
Open source software developers continue to come under attack, with the latest threat being a custom malware that shares many of the attributes of the notorious Shai-Hulud self-propagating worm but comes with functions that make it more difficult for defenders to detect and to reverse engineer. Dubbed “IronWorm,” the infostealer is built in the Rust […]
The Silent Risk of AI-Written DevOps Pipelines
These days, when a developer needs a CI/CD pipeline, they don’t always dive into GitHub Actions docs or spin up Jenkins from scratch. Instead, they pull up an AI assistant and type out something like: “Create a deployment pipeline for a containerized application.” Seconds later, the AI spits out a complete workflow. It looks polished. […]
Harness Acquires Codecov to Identify Untested Code
Harness this week acquired Codecov, a provider of a platform that analyzes the percentage of a codebase that has been tested, from Sentry. Brad Rydzewski, a senior vice president and general manager for Harness, said Codecov makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track testing coverage at a time when the volume of code being […]
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