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devops.com, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving The Way For The Rise Of The Observability Warehouse

Vol 335 · Issue 4 · 2026-02-25

Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse By: Mike Vizard on February 25, 2026 Please accept cookies to access this content Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply and creator of Apache Druid, explains how the rapid adoption of open source OpenTelemetry for instrumenting applications is reshaping modern observability architectures.

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Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving The Way For The Rise Of The Observability Warehouse

DevOps.com, Friday, February 20th, 2026

When DevOps Meets The Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-20

DevOps and cloud adoption are often described as guaranteed upgrades for modern software teams. In practice, the transition is rarely smooth or predictable. It involves rethinking habits that have existed for years, questioning assumptions, and learning through a mix of progress and setbacks.

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When DevOps Meets The Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story

DevOps.com, Friday, February 20th, 2026

What To Do About AI's Forced Rethink Of Reliability In Modern DevOps

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-20

For years, reliability discussions have focused on uptime and whether a service met its internal SLO. However, as systems become more distributed, reliant on complex internet stacks, and integrated with AI, this binary perspective is no longer sufficient. Reliability now encompasses digital experience, speed, and business impact.

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What To Do About AI's Forced Rethink Of Reliability In Modern DevOps

DevOps.com, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Test Automation Strategy For Growing Software Teams

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-19

As software teams grow, so do the challenges of maintaining product quality, release velocity, and engineering efficiency. Manual testing alone becomes difficult to scale, leading to delayed releases, inconsistent test coverage, and higher defect leakage.

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Test Automation Strategy For Growing Software Teams

DevOps.com, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

What A 'Good Plan' Really Means For AI Coding Agents

Vol 335 · Issue 3 · 2026-02-18

AI coding agents have made it trivial to get from an idea to a working prototype. Generating boilerplate, wiring up services or sketching out a feature is no longer the hard part. The difficulty shows up later, when that code has to survive contact with a real system and real users.

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What A 'Good Plan' Really Means For AI Coding Agents

devops.com, Friday, February 13th, 2026

Mainframe Code Modernization Patterns

Vol 335 · Issue 2 · 2026-02-13

In today's enterprise digital landscape, mainframe modernization is no longer a back-office technical exercise. It has become a strategic initiative tied directly to innovation velocity, operational resilience, regulatory compliance and long-term competitiveness.

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Mainframe Code Modernization Patterns

devops.com, Friday, February 13th, 2026

SRE vs. DevOps is a False Choice: Here's the Unified Model That Works

Vol 335 · Issue 2 · 2026-02-13

The current agile environment puts pressure on teams to go fast and remain reliable. It is a common practice to portray DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) as competing strategies for going fast versus remaining reliable. The truth is that DevOps and SRE are two sides of the same coin, and the best experts argue that they are complementary to each other.

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SRE vs. DevOps is a False Choice: Here's the Unified Model That Works

devops.com, Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Bridging The Dev-Security Gap With Smarter Authorization

Vol 335 · Issue 2 · 2026-02-12

Software teams have always lived with a built-in tension - developers push to ship fast, while security teams pump the brakes to assess risk. Now, with AI flooding the enterprise, that friction is spiking. One recent survey found a staggering 322% jump in privilege-escalation risks tied to AI-generated code.

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Bridging The Dev-Security Gap With Smarter Authorization

devops.com, Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Secure DevOps at Scale: Integrating SRE, DevSecOps and Compliance

Vol 335 · Issue 2 · 2026-02-12

Enterprises building SaaS products must find a balance between innovation, security, reliability and compliance. Implementing cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes or breaking things down into microservices, can make organizations highly agile and create security risks - issues we've seen time and again when cloud-native environments aren't managed safely.

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Secure DevOps at Scale: Integrating SRE, DevSecOps and Compliance

devops.com, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

4 Security Risks Of AI Code Assistants

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-04

AI coding assistants can be an efficient way to improve the coding process. They allow developers to automate many repetitive tasks so they can focus on the more grueling, detail-oriented aspects of coding. However, developers must watch out for potential security risks common among AI coding assistants.

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4 Security Risks Of AI Code Assistants

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Why Data Contracts Need Apache Kafka And Apache Flink

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-03

Imagine it's 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix is simple, but it comes with a high cost in lost sleep and operational downtime.

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Why Data Contracts Need Apache Kafka And Apache Flink

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Top 15 DevOps Trends To Watch In 2026

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-03

Launched in 2008, the audio streaming platform Spotify has more than 200 million active users worldwide. Initially, Spotify relied on a homegrown container orchestration system called Helios. In 2017, this became a bottleneck, and the IT team implemented Kubernetes, which increased speed while reducing costs.

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Top 15 DevOps Trends To Watch In 2026

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

The Problem's Not Your Monitoring Tools, It's Your Workflow

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-03

The real cost of poor observability isn't just downtime; it's lost trust, wasted engineering hours, and the strain of constant firefighting. But most teams are still working across fragmented monitoring tools, juggling endless alerts, dashboards, and escalation systems that barely talk to one another, which acts like chaos disguised as control.

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The Problem's Not Your Monitoring Tools, It's Your Workflow

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Bot-Driven Development: Redefining DevOps Workflow

Vol 335 · Issue 1 · 2026-02-03

DevOps has a long history of automating handoffs between the developers and ops teams. The future of automation is rapidly evolving to include a bot-enabled development, where intelligent agents don't just get stuck into a task, but drive parts of the software life cycle. This new world is where DevOps merges human brainpower with AI-powered tools.

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Bot-Driven Development: Redefining DevOps Workflow

devops.com, Thursday, January 29th, 2026

Opsera Report Highlights DevOps Challenges Created By AI Coding Tools

Vol 334 · Issue 4 · 2026-01-29

An analysis published today by Opsera, a provider of a DevOps platform, finds that while adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools has increased developer productivity they also create more duplicate code, resulting in 15 to 18% more security vulnerabilities per line of code compared to code created by a human developer.

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Opsera Report Highlights DevOps Challenges Created By AI Coding Tools

devops.com, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Futurum Group Survey Sees Increasing Investments In AI To Deliver Software

Vol 334 · Issue 3 · 2026-01-23

A global survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds that increasing investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) (40%), followed closely by AI and machine learning (ML) technologies (39%) and applying AI to IT operations (37%), also known as AIOps, are expected to be the top three drivers for accelerating software delivery over the next 12 to 18 months.

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Futurum Group Survey Sees Increasing Investments In AI To Deliver Software

devops.com, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

DevOps: The Never-Ending Story

Vol 334 · Issue 3 · 2026-01-22

Every few years, sometimes every few months, someone declares DevOps dead. If that sounds familiar, it should. We've been hearing some version of this refrain for more than a decade. DevOps has failed. DevOps is broken. DevOps has been replaced by insert latest shiny thing here. And yet, every time the obituary is written, DevOps stubbornly refuses to cooperate.

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DevOps: The Never-Ending Story

devops.com, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

AI Is Forcing A Rethink Of Software Testing And QA

Vol 334 · Issue 3 · 2026-01-22

SmartBear vice president of AI and architecture Fitz Nowlan explains why maintaining software integrity in the age of artificial intelligence requires organizations to double down on testing and quality assurance. He discusses how AI-driven development increases risk and why stronger QA practices are essential for reliable software delivery.

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AI Is Forcing A Rethink Of Software Testing And QA

devops.com, Friday, January 16th, 2026

Meet the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award Winners

Vol 334 · Issue 2 · 2026-01-16

When we first launched DevOps.com, the goal was never just to report on tools or trends. It was to elevate the people, ideas, and communities shaping how software is built and delivered. The DevOps Dozen Awards exist for that exact reason.

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Meet the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award Winners

devops.com, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

Lessons From 2025: The Year 'Agent Mitigation' Became A Thing

Vol 334 · Issue 2 · 2026-01-13

2025 was event-packed, but not everything was a shiny product launch. Many lessons came from very public failures as hard‑won patterns for containing damage, a shift captured in analyses of the 2025 AI agent security landscape and incident reports across finance, SaaS, and industrial sectors.

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Lessons From 2025: The Year 'Agent Mitigation' Became A Thing

devops.com, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

From Automation to Autonomy: What AIOps Actually Looks Like Today

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-07

For years, engineering leaders have been promised that automation would shrink operational work. CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, chatbots and DevOps tooling were supposed to mean reduced tickets, fewer incidents and fewer 3 a.m. pages. Instead, operational load has exploded. Systems are more distributed, dependencies are more tangled and customer expectations are less forgiving.

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From Automation to Autonomy: What AIOps Actually Looks Like Today

devops.com, Monday, January 5th, 2026

AI Is The New Junior Engineer

Vol 334 · Issue 1 · 2026-01-05

You've seen it. Slide decks piled up like wood. 'Pilots.' 'AI Centers of Excellence.' LinkedIn posts are buzzing with the word velocity, like it's a sacred ritual. Everyone is announcing the future as if it just appeared in a Jira ticket after lunch.

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AI Is The New Junior Engineer