OllyGarden Extends AI Agent to Identify Instrumentation Gaps
OllyGarden expands its Rose AI agent with Minimum Viable Instrumentation to identify observability gaps, optimize OpenTelemetry data and reduce telemetry costs.
IBM and Red Hat Disclose Discovery of More Than 400 Java Vulnerabilities
IBM and Red Hat this week reported they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Java libraries since launching a Lightwell initiative earlier this year. Additionally, Lightwell Clearinghouse, a program that enables IT organizations to submit specific open source software dependencies for priority review and remediation, is now generally available. Ben […]
Attaching Evidence to Alerts: an Enrichment Sidecar for Alertmanager
Every on-call engineer knows the ritual. A page lands in Slack: the 5xx rate on a service is above the threshold. The message tells you that something is wrong and nothing about what. So you open Kibana or Loki in another tab, set the time window to the last few minutes, filter by the service, […]
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 […]
Docsy for AI Agents, Oh, and People Too
Google’s Docsy is joining the Linux Foundation as AI agents become documentation readers. Prague — When I grew up in programming, if you didn’t understand something in the code or operating system, you were told to Read The Fine (Ah, yeah, fine) Manual (RTFM). Of course, back then we actually had manuals and documentation. Since […]
Harness Acquires Augment Code Assets to Expand Reach into AI Coding
Harness today added an artificial intelligence (AI) coding offering to its portfolio after revealing it acquired select assets from Augment Code. The Harness Cosmos Software Factory is based on Cosmos, a set of AI coding agents, an Auggie command line interface (CLI), a Code Context Engine and other related technologies originally developed by Augment Code. […]
Secrets Sprawl and Rotation: A Practical Vault Management Playbook
In 2025 alone, security firm GitGuardian detected 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets exposed in public GitHub commits — a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump the company has recorded in five years of publishing its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. Since 2021, that number has grown 152%, far outpacing the […]
Coding Agents Broke Git’s Scaling Math. GitHub Is Rebuilding to Keep Up
GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure as AI coding agents drive billions of commits, promising up to 35x faster writes while exposing new DevOps bottlenecks.
AI Is Taking on Entry-Level Engineering Work. Who Trains the Young Engineers?
When I started my career on a support desk, I dealt with failed logins, missing permissions and recurring system errors every day. The work was repetitive, but repetition taught me to spot patterns, test assumptions and look beyond the symptom a user reported. Over time, I was resolving around 90% of incidents at first contact. […]
HackerOne Report Surfaces Massive Increase in Vulnerability Backlogs
HackerOne research shows vulnerability remediation is getting faster, but AI-driven discovery is expanding exposure debt even more quickly, putting DevSecOps teams under growing pressure.
DevOps Has Always Been Hard to Define. Does a Standard Help?
The new DevOps Standard deserves a serious reading. Its lasting value will depend on whether it helps organizations apply shared principles as people and agents take on different responsibilities.
Federated Query at Petabyte Scale: A Deployment Pattern for a Governed AI-Agent Data Layer
A federated query architecture can reduce data duplication and latency while creating a governed, auditable data layer that enterprise AI agents can safely access.
Security Teams Are Fixing Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever. So Why Is Software Getting Riskier?
AI is speeding up dependency decisions, making point-of-selection security essential for reducing vulnerable components, downstream tickets and avoidable rework.
Availability Should Follow the Workload, Not the Infrastructure
Platform engineering has automated deployment but not recovery. The next maturity curve is intelligent operations that automate routine production decisions and resilience.
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, […]
AI Is Breaking Developers’ Traditional Game Testing Playbook
Game testing has always been an unpredictability problem for developers. Players move in the wrong direction, trigger events out of order, or combine mechanics no designer anticipated. Even so, developers could usually define the rules governing the world and check whether the game followed them. AI is making that harder. NPCs now react to changing […]
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.
How to Move AI SRE Agents From Demo to Production
An AI agent that works on an engineer’s laptop can feel like a breakthrough. It can read logs, query observability tools, inspect cloud resources and connect a failed deployment to a bad configuration change in minutes. For a single investigation, under close human supervision, that is real progress. It is also the easy part. The […]
Base44 Unveils AI Platform to Transform Application Development
Base44 this week unfurled a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to foster greater collaboration between software engineers, application designers and product management teams. Yoav Orlev, chief product officer for Base44, said at the core of the Base Code platform is a harness the company developed that enables multiple AI models to be used […]
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 […]
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