AWS Coding Agents Gain New Plugin Support Across Development Tools
AWS introduced Agent Plugins, a framework that equips AI coding assistants with native AWS capabilities. The initial "deploy‑to‑AWS" plugin lets developers issue natural‑language prompts to generate architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure‑as‑code templates. It currently integrates with Claude Code and Cursor environments and is available as open‑source on GitHub. AWS plans to add more plugins, expanding automated cloud operations while keeping developers in the review loop.
The New Paradigm for Raising up Secure Software Engineers
AI‑assisted coding is set to dominate enterprise development, with Gartner projecting 90% of engineers using AI assistants by 2028. As AI automates line‑level vulnerability detection, security teams face a surge in code volume and reduced review windows. This forces a...
Everyone Uses Open Source, but Patching Still Moves Too Slowly
Enterprise security teams now rely on open source for core infrastructure, development pipelines, and production applications, yet patching cycles remain sluggish. TuxCare’s 2026 Open Source Landscape Report shows that 60% of recent incidents involved known vulnerabilities that were not patched...
How Llm-D Brings Critical Resource Optimization with SoftBank’s AI-RAN Orchestrator
Red Hat and SoftBank have integrated the open‑source llm‑d framework into SoftBank’s AI‑RAN orchestrator, AITRAS, to dynamically distribute large language model inference across edge radio access network hardware. llm‑d extends vLLM’s single‑GPU performance to multi‑node Kubernetes clusters, enabling hardware‑aware routing...
SAS Viya Platform with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Red Hat and SAS have released a reference architecture for deploying the SAS Viya analytics platform on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). The guide details a workload‑placement strategy using dedicated machine pools, integration with AWS services such as RDS for PostgreSQL,...
Simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux Provisioning in Image Builder with New Red Hat Lightspeed Security and Management Integrations
Red Hat has rebranded its Insights service as Red Hat Lightspeed, keeping core advisor, vulnerability and compliance capabilities while emphasizing AI‑driven speed. New Image Builder integrations now auto‑register RHEL images to Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform, and allow compliance profiles...
Ambient Multi-Network Multicluster Support Is Now Beta
Istio 1.29 introduces beta‑level ambient multi‑network multicluster support, targeting production‑ready telemetry across distributed clusters. The release adds an enriched HBONE protocol with baggage headers, enabling waypoint and ztunnel proxies to exchange peer metadata across network boundaries. Telemetry gaps that previously...
GitLab Backs 99.9% Availability with Service Credits for Ultimate Customers
GitLab announced a 99.9% availability service‑level agreement for Ultimate customers on GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated, backed by service credits when monthly uptime falls short. The SLA covers core DevSecOps experiences such as issues, merge requests, Git operations, Container and Package...
David Wheeler: Pg_clickhouse v0.1.4
The pg_clickhouse extension for PostgreSQL has been updated to version 0.1.4, a maintenance release that can be applied in‑place without running an ALTER EXTENSION command. The update resolves critical bugs: the binary driver now correctly inserts NULL into ClickHouse Nullable...
Temporal
Temporal announced a Series D financing round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing new capital to the open‑source durable execution platform. The round includes Lightspeed partners Anoushka Vaswani, Ravi Mhatre, Bucky Moore and Justin Shen. Temporal’s technology underpins mission‑critical services at...
What Is an AI Factory? Enterprise & Cloud Guide
An AI factory is an operational model that industrializes artificial‑intelligence development by linking high‑performance compute, data pipelines, orchestration, governance and deployment into a continuous production system. The concept, popularized by NVIDIA, moves AI from isolated experiments to repeatable, scalable outputs....
From Tickets to Self-Service AI Infrastructure
Many enterprises still provision AI resources through ticket systems, causing delays and underutilized GPUs. Modern developers now expect instant, self‑service access similar to hyperscaler offerings, making manual approval a competitive risk. The shift to automated, governed platforms improves utilization, speeds...
What Is Amazon EKS? EKS & EKS Anywhere Explained | Rafay
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) dominates the managed Kubernetes market with roughly 50% share, offering a fully managed control plane, deep AWS integration, and serverless compute via Fargate. EKS Anywhere, launched in 2020, extends the same open‑source distro to on‑premise...
HCP Packer Adds SBOM Vulnerability Scanning
HashiCorp announced that HCP Packer now offers SBOM vulnerability scanning in public beta, while its package‑visibility feature has moved to general availability. The new scanning capability cross‑references each artifact’s software bill of materials against the MITRE CVE database and flags...
Cloudflare Releases Agents SDK v0.5.0 with Rewritten @Cloudflare/Ai-Chat and New Rust-Powered Infire Engine for Optimized Edge Inference Performance
Cloudflare unveiled Agents SDK v0.5.0, merging stateful Durable Objects with a Rust‑based Infire inference engine to run AI agents directly at the edge. The SDK lets each agent keep a persistent SQLite store of up to 1 GB, eliminating external database calls...
Design and Implementation of Cloud-Native Microservice Architectures for Scalable Insurance Analytics Platforms
A new study presents a cloud‑native microservice architecture designed for insurance analytics, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Spark to replace legacy monolithic systems. The design enables real‑time data ingestion, continuous AI model deployment, and automated scaling across services. Performance tests...
How AI Improves Real-World Testing Accuracy
Global App Testing shows how AI boosts real‑world testing accuracy by expanding coverage beyond scripted flows. By training models on historical test data and user behavior, AI pinpoints high‑risk edge cases across devices, networks, and regions. The approach blends AI‑driven...
Quesma Releases BinaryAudit
Quesma unveiled BinaryAudit, an independent benchmark that measures how well artificial‑intelligence models can spot hidden threats in software binaries. The tool aims to shift binary analysis from a reactive, post‑breach activity to a proactive safeguard applied before deployment, during updates,...
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Migrating Existing Amazon EKS Clusters to EKS Auto Mode | Rafay
Amazon EKS Auto Mode automates node scaling, patching, and add‑on management, but AWS does not provide an automated path for migrating applications, storage, or ingress. Rafay offers a guided, cluster‑level migration process that includes converting to access entries, enabling Auto...
Azure Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability: Build Continuity by Design
Microsoft Azure’s latest blog delineates three core continuity concepts—reliability, resiliency and recoverability—explaining how each fits into the Cloud Adoption Framework and the Azure Well‑Architected Framework. It describes reliability as the ultimate service‑level goal, resiliency as the ability to stay operational...
Mistral Seals First Acquisition Deal with Cloud Startup Koyeb
Mistral AI announced its first acquisition, buying French serverless cloud startup Koyeb. The move aims to accelerate Mistral's AI compute offering and build a sovereign AI cloud platform. Mistral, founded in 2023, has raised nearly €2.8 bn and is valued at...
Cloud Cloning: A New Approach to Infrastructure Portability
FluidCloud’s new Cloud Cloning service tackles the chronic shortcomings of existing cloud‑migration tools by taking a comprehensive snapshot of a source public‑cloud environment and automatically translating it into an equivalent target cloud configuration. The approach captures more than 60% of...
Claude Opus 4.6 Now Available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform
GitLab has added Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to its Duo Agent Platform, giving users a model with a 1 million‑token context window and heightened agency. The model can ingest entire codebases, documentation, and pipeline data in a single interaction, enabling more comprehensive...
From Random Chunks to Real Code — Wiring up Next.js Source Maps in Sentry
The guide walks through how Next.js transforms React/TypeScript into minified, chunked bundles that obscure stack traces, and shows how to configure Sentry to upload matching source maps and debug IDs during the production build. It explains why development tools display...
Introducing Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-Ready Local Container Development Environments
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....
Redefining Automation Governance: From Execution to Observability at Bradesco
Bradesco, one of Brazil’s largest banks, has moved its automation strategy from pure execution to a governance‑focused observability model using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The platform’s open APIs now feed execution data into enterprise‑wide dashboards, linking automation metrics with ITSM...
Condensed Views on Kanban and Sprint Boards
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...
Vibhor Kumar: Pg_background: Make Postgres Do the Long Work (While Your Session Stays Light)
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...
Vault Radar 2025 Recap: Expanding Visibility, Deepening Integration, and Simplifying Security
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,...
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
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 Rise of Agentic Platforms: Scaling Beyond Automation
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...
Five MCP Servers to Rule the Cloud
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...
How Red Hat and the Nvidia Ecosystem Are Standardizing AI Factories
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...
Transforming QA Efficiency and Transparency in Indonesia’s Financial Services Industry
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...
How Xray Connects Quality Across Teams
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’s Update to Harden Their Supply Chain, and Points to Consider
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...
Introducing the Terraform State Provider for Pulumi ESC
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...
Passwordless PostgreSQL: IAM Authentication with Pulumi
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 Transcend Showcases How Intelligent Orchestration Helps Accelerate Innovation Velocity Across the Software Lifecycle
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 Releases Vibeland
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...
Rootly | Key Features to Look for in Incident Management Software
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,...
Rootly | Your Reliability Is only as Resilient as the Platforms You Build On
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....
Schema Validation Comes to Pulumi ESC with Fn::validate
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...
Platform Engineering Maturity in 2026: What the Data Tells Us
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...
Beyond the Legacy PaaS: Choosing Between Heroku and Upsun in the 2026 Cloud Ecosystem
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...
Why Upsun Is the Multi-Cloud PaaS Technical Leaders Are Choosing in 2026
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...
Agentic Cloud Operations: A New Way to Run the Cloud
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....
SmartBear Partners with Carahsoft
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...
Rootly | Your On-Call Team Is Burning Out: Here's How to See It Coming
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,...
Top CI Metrics Platform Engineering Leaders Should Track
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...