Building Reliable EMR Pipelines With Custom AMIs and Step Functions
The goal is not custom AMIs for every workload. It is to make dependency management, patching and recovery explicit platform responsibilities rather than repeated job-level tasks.
OpenAI’s Codex Context Cut Puts Enterprise AI Coding Workflows on Notice
OpenAI quietly trimmed the default input context window for GPT-5.6 inside its Codex CLI, dropping it from 372,000 tokens to 272,000 tokens. That’s a 27% cut, and developers noticed fast. The change surfaced in a GitHub pull request to the Codex CLI, and within days, developers on Reddit and X were asking why OpenAI shrunk […]
Harness Extends DevOps Reach to the Realm of AI Agents
Harness today extended the reach of its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to enable DevOps teams to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. At the core of that capability are five additions to the Harness portfolio, including an AI Asset Catalog that automatically discovers every agent, skill, and plugin that exists within repositories […]
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 […]
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus Adds MCP, GenAI, and Autonomous AI, With AI Sovereignty Built-In
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus enhanced its newly launched hybrid observability platform with a range of powerful AIOps capabilities. OpManager Nexus was launched in April 2026 with the merger of two of ManageEngine’s flagship observability solutions: OpManager Plus and Site24x7. The new platform is unique in the observability market with its dual deployment strategy: You can either […]
How AI in APM Spots Problems Before Users Do
A static alert at 80% CPU or a two-second response time threshold is an absolute judgment applied to a system that operates in relative terms. However, traffic patterns shift by hour, day, and season. Deployments alter performance baselines. External dependencies introduce latency profiles that no team fully controls. A fixed number stops being a reliable […]
Anaconda Doesn’t Want to Be Just the Python Company Anymore
The question is no longer whether Anaconda wants to be more than the Python company. It is how much of the AI development stack DeSanto ultimately intends to own.
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 […]
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to just say “I don’t know.” They can lead to embarrassing or uncomfortable moments. However, security researchers in Israel have found that the large […]
IBM Bob Gets Multi-Agent Muscle and a Cost Dashboard for Enterprise Coding
IBM Bob adds multi-agent coordination, cost analytics, and modernization workflows for IBM Z, IBM i, and Java as AI governance takes center stage.
GitHub’s Redesigned PR Inbox Tackles the Review Bottleneck AI Created
GitHub’s redesigned pull requests dashboard is now GA, adding Inbox, saved views, and smarter filters as PR review queues grow.
Enterprise Smart Contracts Have a Cryptography Problem. EY Just Built a Way Around It
The business case for smart contracts is building fast. Major financial institutions are using programmable, code-based agreements to underpin financial workflows, supply chain operations, and tokenization initiatives. Developers are being asked to prove the value. But there’s a problem most organizations don’t fully see until they’re already stuck: Privacy. Public blockchains are transparent by design. […]
Why Your Best People Can’t Save a Broken Delivery System
When delivery falls apart, the reflex is to blame the team. Missed dates, quality slips, a burned-out squad — leadership tends to reach for a personnel fix and quietly move on. The uncomfortable pattern in most enterprise organizations is that the system itself is the failure mode. Decision latency, priority misalignment, and layers of governance […]
Multi-Model AI Debate: The New Way to Design Software Systems
How agentic workflows can automate architecture debates, compare tradeoffs and produce stronger software designs
How to Build a DevSecOps CI/CD Pipeline on Azure With GitHub Actions
Fix security problems when they’re cheap to fix, which is before the code is deployed. A pipeline that enforces this automatically is what makes that principle real.
Shadow Mode Continuous Integration: The Missing Test Layer for AI Agents
Autonomous agents require CI/CD pipelines that evaluate behavior, not just artifacts. Containerized shadow mode gives platform teams a practical control point: Run the agent in an isolated Docker environment, replay realistic workflows, capture structured traces and evaluate behavior against statistical and policy baselines.
From Alerts to Intelligence: Building a Production Self-Healing System for Port-Down Failures
Big, distributed computing systems seldom have visible failures. Most of them start without any bang, frequently with a health-check disconnection, a failed TCP connection or a service port that is no longer listening. Such signals are not too big when considered in isolation. However, in the scenario where systems are running with several hundreds of […]
Self-Healing Infrastructure With Cognitive Automation: How LLMs and Ansible Transform Middleware Reliability
Infrastructure reliability has always been central to enterprise success, yet traditional automation methods often fall short in handling complex, dynamic environments. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), a new paradigm of cognitive automation is emerging — where intelligent agents help infrastructure not only detect failures but also recommend or implement remediations in real-time. […]
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.
Why AI-Driven Devops is Exposing the Limits of Traditional Toolchains and What Comes Next for Engineering Teams in 2026
The future belongs to adaptive systems that can learn, adjust and self-correct in real-time. Teams that invest in observability, modularity and AI-aware governance today will be positioned to thrive in this new operational reality.
Developing Real-Time Event Processing With Micronaut and Kafka Streams: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to develop lightweight, high-performance stream processing applications in Java with contemporary frameworks
GitHub Copilot Bills Hit $800: Visual Studio’s June Update Adds Real-Time Usage Alerts and MCP Trust Checks
Visual Studio’s June update adds real-time Copilot usage alerts and MCP server trust checks, responding to billing and agent security concerns.
North Korea Expands the Reach of PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Campaign
The North Korean-sponsored threat groups behind the long-running fake interview scams targeting developers are expanding the PolinRider supply chain campaign that has escalated over the past several months. Reports from cybersecurity vendors Socket and Rescana found that two groups linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have published at least 108 malicious packages […]