Tag: devops
GitHub Puts Copilot in the Approval Seat for Pull Requests
Tom Smith | | AI code review, AI coding, AI Governance, automated code review, branch protection, code review, Copilot code review, developer productivity, developer tools, devops, Engineering Governance, github, GitHub approvals, GitHub Copilot, PR approvals, pull requests, software development, software lifecycleGitHub Copilot can now submit binding pull request approvals, moving AI code review from advisory feedback into the merge decision itself ...
Informing Stakeholders Isn’t the Same as Aligning Them
Vladimir Pronin | | change management, continuous delivery, devops, feature flags, progressive delivery, Stakeholder AlignmentThe first sign of trouble was a screenshot. We'd just switched on the A/B test via our feature management platform. Within the hour, a senior stakeholder landed in the variant feature flag, ...
Trusted Open Source Catalogs for AI and Developers
Leslie Pascual of ActiveState joins Alan Shimel to explain why trusted open source catalogs — not after-the-fact scanners — are becoming table stakes as AI agents pull components at machine speed ...
Debian’s AI Vote Bets on Accountability Instead of a Ban
Tom Smith | | AI coding, AI Governance, AI policy, AI-assisted development, AI-generated code, code review, confidential data, Debian, developer productivity, devops, generative AI, Human Oversight, open source, software development, software securityDebian’s new AI contribution policy avoids bans and mandatory disclosure, instead making developers responsible for reviewing AI-generated work and protecting sensitive data ...
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
env-devopsy-dev2.kinsta.cloud 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 ...
Certificate Renewal Is a Deployment Workflow, Not a Cron Job
Franz Alliod | | automation, certificate management, Certificate Renewal, devops, kubernetes, securityCertificate renewal is often treated as a scheduled task: run an ACME client, obtain a new certificate, and move on. In practice, that view is too narrow for production systems. A certificate ...
Harness Unfurls Source Code Repository Alternative to GitHub
Harness today launched a code repository service that is specifically designed for DevOps teams that are relying on artificial intelligence (AI) agents to generate code. Martin Reynolds, Field CTO for Harness, said ...
How to Build a Durable Change-Control Gate for AI Agents
Daniel Martin | | agentic AI, AI agents, AI automation, AI Governance, AI safety, approval workflows, change control, devops, durable workflows, human-in-the-loop, idempotency, LangGraph, NIST AI RMF, policy enforcement, production deployment, release controls, tool-using agents, workflow governanceAI agents that trigger real-world changes need more than confidence scores. A durable change-control gate should recheck policy, require approval for consequential actions, enforce idempotency and verify the result before retrying ...
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 ...
Automated Diagnosis Isn’t Automated Understanding: What Postmortems Teach Us About Building Trustworthy Incident AI
Jyostna Seelam | | AI incident response, AI observability, AI reliability, AIOps, alert correlation, automated incident response, causal reasoning, dependency graphs, devops, Engineering leadership, human-in-the-loop, incident diagnosis, incident management, LLM operations, non-deterministic systems, on-call engineering, postmortems, RAG systems, root cause analysis, SREAI incident tools can reduce alert noise, but real root-cause diagnosis requires causal reasoning, live dependency context, uncertainty handling and strong postmortem data ...
Your AI Coding Budget Is Becoming a Variable Cloud Bill
Carla Castillo | | agentic coding, AI coding assistants, AI coding costs, AI cost management, AI credits, AI developer tools, AI Governance, cloud economics, cost per developer, developer productivity, devops, engineering spend, FinOps for AI, GitHub Copilot, model mix, platform engineering, premium models, SaaS budgeting, token billing, usage based billingAI coding assistants are becoming a variable, usage-based engineering cost, forcing platform and DevOps teams to apply FinOps practices to models, credits, utilization and multi-vendor spend ...
Is Java Enterprise Ready for AI? Absolutely
AI is transforming software engineering. For enterprise Java developers, the key question is whether Java and Jakarta EE are prepared to integrate AI into enterprise applications. The answer is yes. Java and ...
