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Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Investments in Observability

A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 7, 2026
AI

Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data

Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments. Version 2.16 of the platform adds support for a set of real user monitoring (RUM) and service level objective (SLO) dashboards, an ability to correlate changes made to any […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 7, 2026
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore this week’s top DevOps and Platform Engineering roles. From $300k Cloud Engineering in Maryland to cutting-edge Agentic AI positions at T-Mobile.

Mike Vizard · Apr 6, 2026
Video Interviews

Why Code Validation is the Next Frontier

Shared staging environments were never designed for a world where dozens of changes land in a codebase every hour. Yet most engineering teams still depend on them as the primary checkpoint before production. Alan Shimel and Arjun Iyer, CEO of Signadot, dig into why that model is falling apart and what needs to replace it. […]

Alan Shimel · Apr 2, 2026
Video Interviews

Giving AI Agents the Keys to Real Infrastructure

AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations. The volume of AI-generated code is growing rapidly, but without a reliable way to validate that code against real production environments, teams are left choosing between slowing down […]

Alan Shimel · Apr 2, 2026
AI

AWS Makes Pair of AI Agents to Automate DevOps Tasks Available

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to manage DevOps workflows and conduct penetration tests generally available. Neha Goswami, director of Agentic DevOps at AWS, said AWS DevOps Agent provides software engineering teams with an always-available assistant that can automatically optimize application reliability and performance in addition to automating […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 31, 2026
Sponsored Content

Iceberg Won the Format War — Now Comes the Hard Part

Apache Iceberg has effectively won the open table format conversation. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks — every major platform has thrown its weight behind it. If you work in data engineering or platform operations, the question is no longer whether Iceberg is the right foundation. It’s what it actually takes to run it day […]

Christian Romming · Mar 30, 2026
Blogs

OpenTelemetry Gets Kotlin Multiplatform API & SDK

OpenTelemetry expands its observability reach with a native Kotlin Multiplatform API and SDK. Contributed by Embrace, this update enables vendor-neutral telemetry across JVM, iOS, and web, offering idiomatic Kotlin support and optimized performance for mobile and client-side applications.

Adrian Bridgwater · Mar 30, 2026
Blogs

Tekton Kubernetes-Native CI/CD Project Reaches CNCF Incubation

The CNCF TOC has voted to accept Tekton as an incubating project. As a Kubernetes-native framework for CI/CD, Tekton enables developers to build, test, and deploy across clouds by treating pipelines as standard K8s resources. Originally part of Knative, it now offers a modular ecosystem including Triggers and Chains for supply chain security, integrating deeply with Argo CD and Sigstore.

Adrian Bridgwater · Mar 30, 2026
AI

Embedded DevOps: Bridging the Gap Between Firmware and Modern Delivery

Embedded software development has traditionally followed a different rhythm than mainstream software engineering. Hardware availability drives schedules. Validation cycles are longer. Releases are deliberate. Documentation is extensive. For good reason, embedded systems often operate in safety-critical or highly regulated environments. However, expectations around software delivery have shifted. Connected products, over-the-air updates, security mandates and shorter market windows […]

Tom Hollowell · Mar 25, 2026
AI

The SaaS Observability Era is Ending: Why BYOC Is the Future of Telemetry

The era of expensive, centralized SaaS observability is hitting a wall. Discover why the “architectural revolution” of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is the 2026 solution for Kubernetes and AI workloads, restoring data sovereignty, reducing egress costs, and putting telemetry back under engineering control.

Shahar Azulay · Mar 20, 2026
Blogs

Secure Code Warrior AI Agent Applies Policies to AI Generated Code

Secure Code Warrior (SCW) this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that both identifies code generated by an AI coding tool and automatically applies the appropriate governance policies. Company CEO Pieter Danhieux said the SCW Trust Agent makes it possible for DevSecOps teams to use AI to verify which AI models influenced specific commits, […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 19, 2026
AI

Lineaje Adds Ability to Automatically Apply Governance Policies to AI Components

Lineaje this week unfurled a platform that automatically discovers the artificial intelligence components of an application, defines security and governance policies, and then autonomously generates guardrails. At the core of the Lineaje UnifAI platform are a set of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are integrated with an orchestration framework for applying governance policies that has […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 19, 2026
Blogs

Google, Microsoft and Peers Donate to Support Overloaded Open Source Maintainers

A coalition of major tech companies has committed $12.5 million to strengthen the security of open source software, an effort aimed at coordinating responses to the growing pressures created by AI. The funding is provided by Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. It will be administered by the Linux Foundation through its Alpha-Omega Project […]

James Maguire · Mar 18, 2026
AI

Komodor Extends Reach of AI SRE Orchestration Framework

Komodor today extended the reach of its orchestration framework for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and the OpenAPI specification. Company CTO Itiel Shwartz said those capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to more broadly orchestrate AI agents that are being used to investigate and remediate […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 18, 2026
AI

Harness Extends AI Security Reach Across Entire DevOps Workflow

Harness today added an ability to automatically secure code as it is being written by an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool in addition to adding a module to its DevOps platform that discovers, tests, and protects AI components within applications. Secure AI Coding is an extension of the static application security testing (SAST) and software […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 17, 2026
AI

Sauce Labs Makes AI Agent for Creating and Running Tests Available

Sauce Labs today made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that translates a natural language intent into a set of executable test suites that can run anywhere. Company CEO Dr. Prince Kohli said the Sauce AI for Test Authoring agent closes a gap that has emerged between the rate at which code is being […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 17, 2026