Doin’ DevOps
The Missing Runtime for Long-Running AI Agents
Anuj Kapoor | | agent governance, agent orchestration, agent runtime, AI agents, AI observability, AI resiliency, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Durable Functions, devops, distributed systems, durable AI agents, durable workflows, Enterprise AI, human-in-the-loop, long-running AI agents, multi-agent systems, platform engineering, stateful AI, workflow orchestrationEnterprise AI agents need more than stronger models. They need durable execution environments that can coordinate multi-step workflows, survive failures, pause for human review and resume reliably after disconnects or delays. AI ...
The AI Agent Race Is On. But Are We Watching the Right Race?
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and a growing field of challengers are competing to define the future of software development. A new Techstrong special report examines who is ahead, how ...
The Agent Proposes, the Pipeline Disposes: Controls for AI-Authored Change
Veera Ravindra Divi | | agent permissions, agentic coding, AI change control, AI code review, AI coding agents, AI Governance, AI pull requests, AI software development, AI-authored code, AI-generated code security, autonomous coding agents, bounded-write agents, change-budget gates, CI/CD security, human-in-the-loop, in-toto, independent evals, least-privilege, policy as code, protected paths, provenance attestation, provenance verification, Secure DevOps, signed attestations, Sigstore, SLSA, Software Supply Chain Security, staged autonomyWhen agents write code and open pull requests faster than humans can read them, ‘the diff looked fine’ stops being a control. The durable controls live outside the agent’s reasoning loop ...
Software Deployment Strategies for Enterprise Teams: A Scenario-Based Guide to Choosing the Right Approach
Sophie Lane | | blue-green deployment, blue-green strategy, canary deployment, canary release, CI/CD, database schema changes, deployment risk management, deployment strategy, deployment verification, DevOps deployment, enterprise software deployment, expand-contract pattern, feature flag management, feature flags, production deployment, production reliability, release management, rollback strategy, rolling deployment, rolling update, software deployment strategies, software release strategyChoosing the right software deployment strategy depends on the scenario. Get a practical decision framework for enterprise teams ...
JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM, a Research Prototype for Runtime Code Generation
Tom Smith | | agentic AI, AI coding tools, Apache License 2.0, asLlm, generative AI, IntelliJ IDEA plugin, JetBrains Research, Kotlin, Kotlin/JVM, KotlinLLM, LLM-generated code, mockLlm, persistent code generation, reviewable AI code, runtime code generation, Smart macros, software development, statically typed programmingJetBrains open-sources KotlinLLM, letting compiled Kotlin apps generate and persist LLM-written code at runtime instead of calling a model live ...
CISA’s 2026 SBOM Guidance Adds Hash Requirements and AI Coverage
Tom Smith | | AI supply chain security, CISA, CISA SBOM 2026, CMMC, component hashes, component licensing, continuous SBOM validation, CycloneDX, FBI, FedRAMP, NSA, open source security, SaaS security, SBOM automation, SBOM minimum elements, software bill of materials, software procurement, Software Supply Chain Security, software transparency, SPDX, vendor risk managementCISA’s updated 2026 SBOM minimum elements expand software transparency requirements to AI, SaaS and open source while adding hashes, licenses and stronger validation ...
CodePen 2.0 Turns a Design Playground Into a Real Deployment Tool
Tom Smith | | browser coding, browser-based IDE, Cloud development environment, Cloud IDE, CodePen, CodePen 2.0, CodePen Projects, custom domains, developer tools, devops, file-based projects, front-end development, one-click deployment, production deployment, real-time collaboration, shadow infrastructure, version history, web developmentCodePen 2.0 transforms the front-end playground into a file-based development platform with collaboration, version history and one-click deployment ...
AI Agents Are Writing Your Infrastructure Code. Is Anyone Governing It?
Neel Shah | | agentic infrastructure, AI agent governance, AI coding assistants, AI-generated infrastructure, cloud misconfiguration, cloud security automation, continuous drift detection, devops security, IAM misconfiguration, infrastructure as code security, infrastructure compliance, infrastructure guardrails, Kubernetes security, platform engineering security, policy as code, RBAC for AI agents, secure-by-default platforms, SRE governance, StackGen Aiden, Terraform securityAI agents now generate infrastructure code at scale, but security pass rates are stuck at 55%. Here’s how teams can close the governance gap ...
From Reactive Monitoring to AI-Driven Operational Intelligence
Sneha Gullapalli | | AI observability, Amazon Q, Apache Iceberg, automated root cause analysis, AWS CloudWatch, AWS operations, CloudWatch Logs, DevOps observability, Distributed Tracing, Five Whys, GenAI observability, incident response, LLM monitoring, log lake, MTTR reduction, operational intelligence, proactive monitoring., RAG latency, S3 Tables, token usage monitoringTraditional monitoring often meant chasing alerts and toggling between dashboards after an issue had already impacted users. AWS CloudWatch — long the backbone of metrics, logs and traces on AWS — is ...
AI Moved the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Understanding and Trusting It
Ted Julian | | AI code generation, AI code security, AI coding tools, AI investment ROI, AI-generated code, application security, automated code review, code quality, code review, codebase visibility, compliance, dependency risk, developer productivity, devsecops, Engineering leadership, engineering metrics, engineering ROI, production incidents, pull request review, SCA, software composition analysis, software delivery, software development productivity, software governance, technical debtAI coding boosts velocity, but without stronger review, governance and codebase visibility, teams risk higher costs, security gaps and production failures. TL;DR ...
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 Undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on Coding Agent Pricing
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 undercuts Opus 4.8 on price, matching it on key coding benchmarks, and adds new safeguards against cybersecurity risks ...
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 ...
