GitLab this week made available a public beta of a platform for building, managing and orchestrating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to automate a range of DevOps tasks and workflows.Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations for GitLab, said the GitLab Duo Agent Platform will enable DevOps teams to assign tasks to AI agents both synchronously and asynchronously using an extensible platform that provides full visibility across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).GitLab as part of that effort is building a catalog for AI agents and a knowledge graph that will enable AI agents to access…
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Generative AI tools aren’t just autocomplete for code—they’re reshaping the very first rung on the engineering career ladder. Host Mike Vizard asks Juan Salinas, VP of business development at Jalasoft, and software engineer Rolando Lora whether entry‑level developer jobs are about to disappear.Salinas is blunt: the routine, low‑risk tickets that once taught newcomers the ropes are now exactly what teams hand to AI agents. University graduates were “20–30 percent job‑ready” before; today the same agents that help them finish coursework will compete for their first paychecks.Lora counters that the picture isn’t all doom. Lightweight “vibe‑coding” chats let designers and product owners spin…
The circle cylinder of life Maybe you’ve noticed all the twenty somethings tight rolling their jeans or people with bellbottoms or the 80’s music playing in grocery stores… It’s true, fashion and art are cyclical. I’m certain we’ll be seeing MC Hamer pants as a new trend around 2030.Technology, much like fashion, often operates in an ever-moving circle. Trends emerge, fade, and then, with a fresh coat of paint and some innovative twists, reappear as the next big thing. In the world of data and Business Intelligence (BI), we’re witnessing a fascinating full circle moment.For years, the narrative pushed was…
Squall is a SQLite viewer and editor that runs in your terminal. Squall is written in Python and uses the Textual package. Squall allows you to view and edit SQLite databases using SQL. You can check out the code on GitHub. Here is what Squall looks like using the Chinook database: Currently, there is only one command-line option: -f or –filename, which allows you to pass a database path to Squall to load. Example Usage: squall -f path/to/database.sqlite The instructions assume you have uv or pip installed. uv tool install squall_sql uv tool install git+https://github.com/driscollis/squall If you want to upgrade to the latest version of…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is empowering developers to build, innovate and deploy faster than ever before. But this velocity has a hidden cost — one that doesn’t show up on product roadmaps. It’s a new and expanding class of risk, flaring up in the unseen connections that power intelligent systems — their application programming interfaces (APIs). And it’s growing faster than most traditional governance models can handle.This isn’t just a theoretical problem — it’s a practical reality that security leaders are grappling with today, according to Akash Agrawal, VP of DevOps & DevSecOps at LambdaTest, an AI-native cloud testing platform…
Centreon this week generally made available an open source agent for monitoring IT and operational technology (OT) environments that incorporates the open source OpenTelemetry agent for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).Raphaël Chauvel, chief product officer at Centreon, said now that the Centreon Monitoring Agent makes it possible to also collect log data using OpenTelemetry, with the next step being adding the ability to collect traces. Overall, the goal is to provide a unified platform for monitoring and observability that IT teams can flexibly apply as needed, he added.Most IT…
Intro Local development can be challenging when apps rely on external services like databases or queues, leading to brittle scripts and inconsistent environments. Fiber v3 and Testcontainers solve this by making real service dependencies part of your app’s lifecycle, fully managed, reproducible, and developer-friendly. With the upcoming v3 release, Fiber is introducing a powerful new abstraction: Services. These provide a standardized way to start and manage backing services like databases, queues, and cloud emulators, enabling you to manage backing services directly as part of your app’s lifecycle, with no extra orchestration required. Even more exciting is the new contrib module…
In today’s data-driven economy, organizations are no longer asking if they should invest in data, they are asking how fast they can turn data into decisions. The answer, increasingly, points to Microsoft Fabric.Fabric is not just another analytics tool – it is a strategic inflection point. It reimagines how data is ingested, processed, governed, and activated across the enterprise. For CIOs, data leaders, and architects, Fabric represents a unified, AI-powered platform that simplifies complexity and unlocks agility.Strategic Vision: From Fragmentation to FabricFor years, enterprises have wrestled with fragmented data estates – multiple tools, siloed systems, and brittle integrations. Microsoft Fabric…
As DevOps becomes more deeply intertwined with artificial intelligence, it’s no longer just about mastering CI/CD pipelines or infrastructure as code. Success in this hybrid era depends just as much on your ability to collaborate, communicate and think critically. We’ve seen it happen in manufacturing, as well as software development. AI is fast, scalable and data-hungry, but it still needs human judgment and coordination to deliver real-world results. That’s where soft skills become a DevOps engineer’s secret weapon. In the AI age, it’s not just what you automate — it’s how you lead, adapt and interact that defines your value. Adaptability: Navigating the…
APIs are increasingly becoming a primary attack vector in modern applications. According to Gartner, by 2025, more than 50% of data theft incidents will involve insecure APIs. In fact, a report highlighted a 400% surge in API attacks over the past year alone. For Python developers – whether you’re building REST APIs with Flask or FastAPI, or integrating with third-party endpoints – security testing is no longer optional.While functional testing ensures your API behaves as expected, it does not cover vulnerabilities like broken object-level authorization, insecure tokens, or excessive data exposure. This guide provides Python developers with practical, hands-on techniques…