Know What's Happening in DevOps
Know What's Happening in DevOps
Red Hat has announced the general availability of its own build of Podman Desktop, delivering an enterprise‑grade, secure‑by‑design local container development environment. The offering bridges the long‑standing gap between developers’ laptops and hardened OpenShift clusters, leveraging the same trusted RHEL components. With official Red Hat support, SLAs, and regular security updates, organizations can adopt the tool without abandoning existing Docker or Podman workflows. The release aims to eliminate the “works on my machine” risk and streamline the path from code to production.
If Active Directory is down, can you even log in to start restoring backups? A lot of recovery plans assume core services are intact but that's not always a safe bet.
Azure DevOps is adding a condensed view option to its Kanban and Sprint boards, letting users switch between the standard card layout and a compact view that displays only the work item ID and title. The feature addresses screen‑space constraints...
In this episode the hosts dive into Acquia Source, the fully managed Drupal SaaS platform, exploring its evolution, pricing, and how it enables organizations to scale and customize Drupal experiences. Guest Matthew Grasmick explains the technical challenges of building a...
pg_background is a PostgreSQL extension that runs SQL statements asynchronously in dedicated background worker processes, letting client sessions stay lightweight. The new v2 API introduces a PID‑plus‑cookie handle that safeguards against PID reuse bugs, making long‑running jobs more reliable. Recent...
HashiCorp's Vault Radar, launched in 2025, expanded its secret‑sprawl detection across developer tools and cloud services, adding integrations for Jira, VS Code, Amazon S3, Slack, and AWS Secrets Manager. The platform introduced real‑time IDE scanning, direct remediation through Vault, webhook alerts,...
Docker Sandboxes introduced a new "shell" sandbox type that provides an interactive Ubuntu microVM with preinstalled development tools. The guide demonstrates running the Claude‑powered NanoClaw WhatsApp assistant inside this sandbox, isolating its filesystem and credentials. By mounting only a workspace...
The article outlines the emergence of agentic platforms, where AI‑driven agents augment traditional automation to provide goal‑oriented, context‑aware actions within platform‑defined constraints. It traces platform engineering’s evolution from ticket‑driven operations through self‑service automation to bounded autonomy, emphasizing the need for...
Real Linux commands. Real production debugging. No fluff — just what DevOps engineers use daily. Save & follow @devopsshack #devops #linux #aws #ec2 #devopsshack
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is being adopted by the major hyperscalers as a native interface for AI agents to manage cloud resources via natural language. AWS leads with a catalog of over 60 MCP servers covering its entire service...
An AI agent that can proactively stop, resize, and restart your virtual machines? You'd want guardrails in place, but the use case matters. This post shows off a complete @GoogleCloudTech reference architecture ... https://t.co/gy9WePAHSO https://t.co/FKqdPutzUc
Interesting additional thought about this: I use archunit https://www.archunit.org/ to force Claude to follow some patterns (never access the DB from the service layer for example, never return database package entities from the controller). I wonder if we should have more...
AI SRE platforms such as PagerDuty, Datadog, and several startups are emerging to automate incident diagnostics and mitigation, but they largely ignore the coordination side of incident response. The author argues that incident management—aligning multiple responders, preventing fixation, and maintaining...
Pilot v1.0.0 shipped 🎉 133 features. Built in 2 weeks. The last 22 issues of the v1.0 roadmap were executed by Pilot itself — decomposing epics, creating branches, running CI, merging PRs. → Label a ticket "pilot". Get a PR back. GitHub,...
Nvidia’s ecosystem is evolving into the control plane for AI infrastructure, moving beyond GPUs to a full stack that integrates Linux and Kubernetes. A deep partnership with Red Hat provides day‑zero support for new hardware like Vera Rubin and Blackwell, delivering...
Head of OpenAI 's API: "Codex is really good at reviewing code. Codex reviews all of our PRs. It makes code reviews go from a 10-15 minute task to sometimes a 2-3 minute task, because you have a bunch of...
A leading Indonesian financial services firm adopted TestRail, deployed by IT Group Indonesia, to unify its fragmented QA processes. Leveraging TestRail’s centralized test management, the organization linked requirements, test cases, and results, replacing manual spreadsheet reporting with real‑time dashboards. Forrester’s...
Xray brings test management into Jira, creating a single workspace where QA, development, and product teams share requirements, test cases, executions, and defects. The platform offers three editions—Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise—tailored to different testing maturities, each building on a core...
npm completed a major authentication overhaul in December 2025, revoking classic long‑lived tokens and moving to short‑lived session tokens with MFA default for publishing. The changes also promote OIDC Trusted Publishing, giving CI systems per‑run credentials. However, MFA phishing attacks...
Pulumi has launched a new Terraform State provider for its ESC platform, allowing teams to import Terraform output values directly into ESC environments. The provider reads state files from local, S3, or Terraform Cloud backends and exposes outputs as first‑class...
Pulumi now offers reusable components to enable AWS IAM authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL, allowing applications to connect using short‑lived tokens instead of static passwords. The setup provisions an RDS cluster with IAM authentication, creates IAM‑enabled database users, and configures IRSA...
GitLab hosted the virtual Transcend event to unveil its Intelligent Orchestration platform, which leverages agentic AI to automate routine tasks across the entire software development lifecycle. CEO Bill Staples highlighted the AI paradox—high coding productivity gains are limited by developers...
SPARKHUB PTE. LTD. launched Vibeland, a one‑click deployment platform tailored for Gemini/Google AI Studio vibe‑coding outputs. The service automatically parses project structure, configures runtimes, assigns domains, and generates shareable product links. It targets developers, designers, entrepreneurs and students who can...
A couple of the biggest unlocks for OpenClaw: > Find prompting best practices for the specific model you use. Load that into a .md file and have your OC reference the best practices. Then schedule a cron to review all your...
Choosing the right incident management platform is as critical for SREs as a chef’s knife is for a cook. Modern tools must integrate with existing stacks like Slack, Linear, and Datadog while offering intuitive interfaces that speed onboarding. Key capabilities—customization,...
Google Cloud Platform suffered a major intermittent outage that rippled across at least 13,000 companies, including Shopify and OpenAI. The disruption also knocked offline many incident‑response tools that rely on the same cloud infrastructure, exposing a single point of failure....
Pulumi’s Elastic Service Config (ESC) now includes a built‑in fn::validate function that checks configuration values against JSON Schema at save time. The feature instantly rejects invalid settings, preventing misconfigurations from reaching deployment pipelines or production. Users can define simple type checks...
The 2026 State of Platform Engineering Report, based on 518 practitioners, forecasts a bifurcated maturity landscape where fast‑moving firms close measurement gaps and double platform budgets, while laggards risk funding crises. AI integration is now non‑negotiable, with 94% of respondents...
Give engineers subpar tools, what could possibly go wrong? a) competitors out-ship AWS (eg Vercel, where Claude Code is used by so many and they are on 🔥) b) frustrated engineers interview elsewhere and take offers at places where Claude Code or...
The Evil Tester Show episode 030 features Dragan Spiridonov discussing his open‑source Agentic QE fleet, a suite of AI‑driven agents and skills that extend Claude Code for quality engineering. The tooling can automate browser interactions via Playwright or Vibium, generate test...
Why Your AI Chat is Slow (Static Batching) ⏳ Static batching means one slow request blocks everyone else for seconds. Here is how Continuous Batching solves the "slowest user" problem #Coding #DevOps #AIModel #Latency https://t.co/CRe945HeYs
Heroku announced an End‑of‑Sale for new enterprise customers and a feature freeze, signalling no further roadmap investment for large‑scale users. Existing accounts can still renew, but growth‑focused teams face stagnation. Upsun positions itself as the next‑generation PaaS, retaining a Git‑centric...
A recent Journal du Net evaluation positions Upsun, formerly Platform.sh, as the leading multi‑cloud PaaS for 2026, highlighting its ability to deploy across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM and OVHcloud with identical workflows. The platform distinguishes itself with instant byte‑perfect...
Microsoft introduced Azure Copilot’s agentic cloud operations, an AI‑driven model that embeds intelligent agents into the entire cloud lifecycle. The agents translate telemetry from health, cost, performance, and security into coordinated actions, covering migration, deployment, observability, optimization, resiliency, and troubleshooting....
Spark is evolving from low‑level RDD and notebook‑driven workflows to declarative pipelines, branded as Lakeflow on Databricks. The new framework lets engineers define flows, datasets, and pipelines in a configuration‑first manner, while Spark handles execution for both batch and streaming....
SmartBear announced an expanded partnership with Carahsoft, designating the latter as its Master Government Aggregator for federal, state and local agencies. The agreement routes SmartBear’s API development, automated testing and application monitoring solutions—including ReadyAPI, TestComplete, Swagger, Reflect, BugSnag and Zephyr—through...
Vercel Sandbox isolation levels: ✅ Compute & memory resource isolation ✅ Filesystem and durability isolation 🆕 Network isolation Wild how easy this is: --𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍-𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 (CLI) or 𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝙿𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚢 in 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚋𝚘𝚡.𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎. Try it out: https://t.co/UoWXCW9Ien
Rootly launched On‑Call Health, a free open‑source platform that monitors on‑call responder workload. It aggregates observed data—incident volume, severity, after‑hours pages, commit patterns—and optional self‑reported check‑ins to compute a 0‑100 risk score. The tool emphasizes trend analysis over single snapshots,...
The article walks through solving a Tesla interview question in Python, calculating each car maker’s net product launch change between 2019 and 2020 using pandas. It then refactors the script into a reusable function and adds a unit‑test suite to...
Platform engineering leaders are urged to adopt a focused set of CI metrics—build duration (p50/p95), queue time, success rate, cost per build, flaky‑test rate, and artifact integrity—to turn raw pipeline data into actionable insight. By automating collection and visualizing these...
Microsoft released February 2026 patches for its self‑hosted Azure DevOps Server suite, covering the core product and the 2022.2, 2020.1.2, and 2019.1.2 releases. Each patch is available via direct download links and includes detailed release notes. The company urges all...
AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Copilot now generate features and tests in minutes, dramatically boosting engineering velocity. However, when test outcomes become the sole decision signal for autonomous agents, organizations face hidden risks like logic drift, excessive manual...
Kong introduced Context Mesh, a new component of its AI Connectivity platform that automatically discovers enterprise APIs, converts them into Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolkits, and deploys those tools through the AI Gateway with built‑in governance. The service leverages existing...
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says AI coding assistants haven’t accelerated enterprise software delivery because developers spend only 10‑20% of their day writing code. The remaining 80‑90% involves reviews, pipeline runs, security and compliance checks that remain untouched by AI. GitLab’s...
Mistral AI has re‑engineered its alerting pipeline by treating monitoring definitions as code, using Terraform as the single source of truth. The approach automatically generates synthetic checks for every model capability, tags them for ownership, and enforces deterministic routing. By...
Simplyblock has launched Vela, a self‑hostable platform that provides instant, Git‑style branching for PostgreSQL databases without copying data. The solution leverages copy‑on‑write on local NVMe storage and deep Kubernetes integration to deliver high‑performance, low‑latency environments. Vela targets AI workloads that...
Sentry has rolled out Size Analysis to every user following its May 2025 acquisition of Emerge Tools. The feature plugs into CI pipelines, automatically uploading each build and providing diff‑based size reports with actionable insights. Developers can set thresholds that fail...
Harness rebuilt its execution‑listing filters with a modular React component built on the Context API. The new system replaces a hidden side‑panel legacy UI that lost state on refresh with a discoverable, type‑safe framework. It centralizes filter state in a...
The CNCF’s 2025 Project Velocity report shows that cloud‑native projects are still measured by real signals such as commit frequency, contributor growth, and deployment patterns. Kubernetes retains its dominant position, while Backstage’s contributions have more than doubled and OpenTelemetry sees...
On February 25, Matt Stagg will moderate a Streaming Media Connect panel titled “Peak Performance: Handling Traffic Spikes for Global Live Sports Streams.” The discussion brings together senior engineers from TATA Communications, BT Group, and DAZN to dissect how leading...
