IT Outsourcing Versus In-House Development
The debate isn’t new — but the stakes are. In 2026, the gap between companies that get this decision right and those that don’t is measured in product cycles, burn rate, and competitive ground lost to faster-moving teams. Most engineering leaders frame the question as a cost problem. It isn’t. It’s a capability and velocity […]
Anthropic Adds a Coordinator to Claude Projects for Running AI Work in Parallel
Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Projects coordinates parallel Claude Code sessions, delegates work across branches and brings the results back through familiar pull-request review workflows.
How I Consolidated Duplicate Delivery Pipelines With Parameters and Build Tags
Two modules in a repository had near-identical Azure DevOps build and release definitions. A third would have required another pair. The delivery chain used five definitions: one change decider, two builds, and two releases. I consolidated it into one decider, one generic build, and one release with a deployment stage for each onboarded module. The […]
Splunk Preps Second Open Source LLM for Telemetry Data
Splunk is gearing up to make an artificial intelligence (AI) model for analyzing log data available on Hugging Face under an open source license. Additionally, Splunk at its .conf26 conference this week revealed it is developing a Universal Collector, expected to be available in beta in 2027, to streamline collection of all types of telemetry […]
Can Rust Improve Real Django API Performance? Testing Django-Bolt Beyond Synthetic Benchmarks
Django-Bolt uses Rust to accelerate Django request handling, but real-world gains depend on database work, authentication, serialization and where an API actually spends its time.
The Three Tiers of Agentic Incident Response: When to Trust AI Autonomy
A three-tier model for agentic incident response balances AI automation with human oversight, matching autonomy to risk, reversibility, blast radius and diagnostic confidence.
The Most Dangerous Reliability Failures Aren’t Component Failures
A production provisioning failure shows why reliability problems can emerge from interactions between healthy components, and how system-level constraints and feedback can prevent them.
Factory Raises $200M as It Builds Agents Across the Software Lifecycle
Enterprise coding agent startup Factory announced it has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last funding round five months ago. Founded in 2023, Factory develops AI agents for software engineering teams. Its platform is designed for work across the full software development lifecycle, including building, testing […]
LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Gain SaaS App Emulation Platform
LocalStack this week revealed it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of an emulator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that is used to build custom applications for those platforms. Colin Neagle, vice president of marketing for LocalStack, said the emulators WonderTwin AI has developed will be integrated into the company’s namesake emulation platform that application development […]
Stop Chasing 100% Test Coverage: Why DevOps Teams Need to Test Smarter, Not More
Every software team eventually runs into the same question: How much testing is enough? For years, the default answer has been “more.” More automated tests. More regression suites. More environments. More devices. But as applications become more complex and release cycles continue to accelerate, testing everything simply isn’t realistic, even with the support of AI. […]
Hybrid Software Development: Benefits and Challenges
Fortunately, companies do not always have to choose between in-house vs outsourcing. Instead they can adopt a hybrid development strategy, which combines the capacities of internal and external IT teams. This approach allows companies to capitalize on the strengths of both traditional software development models, while offsetting their respective limitations, thereby streamlining project execution. However, […]
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 […]
DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling
Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends. They compartmentalize DevOps principles to […]
GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure
GitHub’s August 2026 report details five outages tied to Actions and Copilot growth outpacing infrastructure. Here’s what platform teams should know.
Atlassian Aims to Fill Context and Governance Gap for AI Coding Agents
Atlassian today extended the capabilities of its portfolio to provide teams of artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents with the level of context needed to build and deploy applications in production environments at much higher levels of scale. Code Context, built on Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, makes it possible for AI coding agents to generate more reliable […]
GitHub Workflows Strain Under AI Agent Development
Coder CEO Rob Whiteley joins Mike Vizard to explain why GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines and developer platforms are showing strain under agentic development — and what a policy-aware redesign of the DevOps stack should look like.
AI Has Turned Verification Into the New DevOps Bottleneck
The next DevOps challenge is not generating more software. It is proving, quickly and repeatedly, that a growing volume of machine-generated change is fit to ship.
SpyCloud 2026 Identity Threat Report Finds Non-Human Identities Are Now the Leading Path into the Enterprise
Austin, Texas / USA, 9th September 2026, CyberNewswire
GitHub Quietly Fixes One of Dependabot’s Oldest Headaches
GitHub Dependabot can now authenticate to GitHub-hosted package registries without personal access tokens, reducing credential management and supply chain security risk.
DevOps in Financial Services: Moving Fast Without Losing Control
DevOps is often associated with speed: shorter release cycles, greater automation, faster feedback and increased developer autonomy. In financial services, however, speed is only one part of the equation. A platform supporting banking, payments or other regulated financial workloads also has to account for security, traceability, resilience, access control and operational risk. A deployment that […]
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 […]
Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests
Boston, MA, USA, 8th September 2026, CyberNewswire
Mars Security Launches Real-Time Intel-to-Detection Engine That Turns Live Threat Intelligence Into Backtested Detections in Minutes
New York, NY, United States, 8th September 2026, CyberNewswire