Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed a release management capability for the artificial intelligence (AI) agent it developed to automate DevOps workflows.Announced at the AWS New York Summit, the latest release of the AWS DevOps Agent makes available in preview an updated version of the AWS DevOps Agent that can now review and test code changes to evaluate their readiness to be deployed in a production environment.Rather than running a static test suite, the agent reasons about what the change does and constructs tests tailored to it, covering functional correctness, behavioral regressions, and integration scenarios that a manual test might…
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Job DescriptionAs a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be the operational architect responsible for setting the standards and owning the reliability of our core infrastructure. This role requires deep technical mastery paired with strong leadership to elevate best practices across multiple teams.If your passion is building highly available, scalable cloud ecosystems, and mentoring engineers to become platform experts, we want to talk to you.Your Key Areas of Ownership:- Own the entire lifecycle of our AWS environment. We need deep expertise in using Terraform not just for provisioning, but as the single source of truth for everything feasible.- Architect and maintain…
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve never tried it, but the batch separator has to be separate, which I’ll show.Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.The Batch TerminatorThe default batch terminator in SQL Server tools is “GO”. We tend to use this in SSMS, and many of us know to type this in SQLCMD when we use it. In SSMS, we sometimes need it. Here’s an example where I create a proc and add a RETURN, which some…
News Every developer has tools they rely on daily. The workflows they’ve built around them, the ways they’ve learned to move faster, debug smarter, and write better code – that kind of hands-on experience can be hard to put into words. We’re collaborating with LinkedIn to make it easier for you to showcase your expertise with JetBrains IDEs on the world’s largest professional network. You can now connect your IDE to LinkedIn and let your real tool usage speak for itself. Connect your IDE IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, Rider, GoLand, CLion, RustRover, and RubyMine are already supported via a…
The term web server refers to both hardware and software, but for this guide we focus entirely on the software side: how to host a website on your Linux system using Apache, MariaDB, and WordPress. A web server is a software program that receives and responds to client requests via the HTTP/HTTPS protocols. Its primary purpose is to display website content which, oftentimes, is in the form of text, images, and video. A web server can either serve static or dynamic content. Static content, as the name infers, refers to content that hardly changes and is bound to remain the…
Job DescriptionThis DevSecOps role is foundational to our engineering department. We aren’t looking for just another DevOps hand—we need a Security Guardian who understands that reliable software must first be secure, especially when handling Protected Health Information (PHI). You will own the full security lifecycle of our platform, turning complex regulatory requirements (like HIPAA) into simple, automated, and ironclad engineering solutions.This is where technical mastery meets legal compliance. If you thrive on bridging the gap between rapid development cycles and critical healthcare regulations, this role is for you.What You Will Own:- Define and enforce our approach to handling PHI, making…
GitHub is resuming enforcement of minimum version requirements for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners — and this time, the deadlines are firm.After a rocky start that included multiple delays and a temporary pause earlier this year, GitHub has published a clear enforcement timeline for both GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. If your team runs self-hosted runners and hasn’t upgraded them yet, now is the time to act.Why This Is HappeningIn early 2024, the GitHub Actions team began rearchitecting the backend services that power job execution and runner communication. That foundational rebuild now handles over 120 million…
Your Linux server’s network is maxed out, and you have no idea what’s eating it, so here’s how to find the exact program behind it in under 2 minutes using nethogs, iftop, ss, and the /proc filesystem. This happens pretty often. The server starts feeling slow, uploads get stuck at 100 percent, or you notice your cloud bill creeping up without any clear reason. You check top or htop, but everything looks fine because those tools only show CPU and memory, not network usage. So you know something is eating bandwidth, but you cannot actually see what it is. Linux…
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I’ve lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through the 2010s, and now AI.You learn things by surviving that many. You learn that vendors oversell. That leadership wants results yesterday. That the breathless predictions almost never land on the calendar that everyone promised. So you learn to discount the hype.And that reflex, the one thing that five shifts trained into me, is the thing I’d warn other veterans about right now.The hype curve lies in both directions. Everyone knows it…