Author: drweb

Google this week published the results of its annual DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) survey that finds 90% of the IT professionals surveyed are now using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with 80% reporting they are more productive as a result. The survey of nearly 5,000 IT professionals also finds that respondents now have a median […]

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At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, JFrog’s Yossi Shaul, senior vice president of DevOps, joined Alan to reflect on both his personal journey and JFrog’s evolving role in shaping modern software delivery. Shaul has been with JFrog since its early days, starting with the creation of Artifactory nearly 16 years ago — before “DevOps” was […]

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At swampUP 2025, Alan caught up with Demetrios Brinkmann, founder of the MLOps Community, to discuss the growing gap between AI research and real-world production deployments. Brinkmann leads a global network of more than 100,000 developers dedicated to bridging that divide, helping teams move beyond flashy demos and academic models to systems that deliver tangible […]

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The fundamental challenge with MCP-enabled attacks isn’t technical sophistication. It’s that hackers have figured out how to catfish your AI. These attacks work because they exploit the same trust relationships that make your development team actually functional. When your designers expect Figma files from agencies they’ve worked with for years, when your DevOps folks trust their battle-tested CI/CD pipelines, when your developers grab packages from npm like they’re shopping at a familiar grocery store, you’re not just accepting files. Rather, you’re accepting an entire web of “this seems legit” that attackers can now hijack at industrial scale. Here are five…

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Slack is a popular tool for team interaction. To describe it quickly, it’s a feature-rich persistent chat room, with threads, multimedia, alerts, etc. There is a web interface, a desktop app, and a mobile app.In addition to Twitter, which is also extremely popular in the SQL Server community, there are a couple Slacks to be aware of, specifically setup for the SQL Server community:If you’re a user group leader or SQLSat organizer in the PASS US South Central Region (NM, TX, OK, AR, LA):And if you’re in my hometown Baton Rouge, join:https://batonrouge.slack.com/ – developers, designers, marketers, business people, hobbyists, students, and…

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