A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said that the increased level of spending suggests more enterprise IT organizations are committing to observability in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, there is now a pressing need to extend the collection of telemetry data to capture the intent of AI agents that are…
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An agent without context is roughly as useful as asking a very fast junior analyst who has never seen your business. What makes an agent genuinely reliable and allows it to answer questions accurately rather than just plausibly is a well-structured semantic layer sitting between it and the raw data. Think about what a good data analyst brings to the table: knowledge of the business domain, familiarity with where the data lives, an understanding of the relationships between tables, the logic behind calculated fields, the gap between what a column is called and what it actually means in practice. The semantic layer is the structured representation of…
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new to this blog party, I encourage you to check out the rules. If you are new to blogging, please consider contributing. You don’t need to post about or be proficient with T-SQL to participate. We are always excited to have new participants. Be sure to post your blog on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.The InvitationWe are in the heart of the spring conference season. Maybe you had the opportunity to attend FabCon / SQLCon or a weekend event like Data Saturday. This month I’m inviting you to…
New York, USA, April 7th, 2026, CyberNewswire Minimus, the premier source for secured container images has unveiled that Yaell Nardi has joined as Chief Business Officer (CBO). Through this move, Nardi will architect the company’s next phase of scale and growth, focusing aggressively on growth strategies and operation As the market landscape evolves and AI reshapes customer acquisition, Minimus is pioneering an “operational powerhouse” model, which will be lead by Nardi to aggressively scale the marketing funnel and other strategic alliances. “We are entering a phase of aggressive expansion that requires rigorous execution and a completely new playbook. Traditional marketing strategies…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others. The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and…
The npm code repository is again being used by a bad actor to launch a supply chain attack that includes three dozen malicious packages that appear as Strapi CMS plugins but deliver a range of threats. Strapi is a popular open source headless Node.js content management system developers use to build, manage, and expose content through REST or GraphQL APIs while using a range of front-end frameworks, like React, Next.js, and Vue. Capabilities that make it attractive include a customizable administrator panel and flexibility in databases developers can use. According to researchers with cybersecurity vendor SafeDep, the 36 malicious packages…
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard Edition, a few on the Enterprise Edition, and others handling core work, like the Linux/PostgreSQL option.We also have designers, and they regularly research how well the product works for customers, what is difficult, and they propose changes. One of them was recently release. We have a new analysis page in Redgate Monitor and this post looks at the changes.Video walk-through of this post below.This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor. Click to see the other posts.The New ExperienceIf you go to monitor.red-gate.com,…
The most dangerous assumption in quality engineering right now is that you can validate an autonomous testing agent the same way you validated a deterministic application. For the last decade, we wrote tests that expected input A to always produce output B, and we built entire CI/CD pipelines around that binary logic. But when your systems can reason, adapt, and make decisions on their own, that linear validation model collapses. Attempting to write a static test case to verify a non-linear mind is an exercise in futility. The agent will behave differently under varying conditions, and you simply cannot predict…
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue a chaotic cloud environment is where it gets interesting. FinOps is about building a culture where teams understand the financial impact of their technical decisions without killing innovation. Here are a few real-world style stories that remind me why FinOps actually matters.The SaaS Team That Accidentally Collected Sleeping ServersOne SaaS company I worked with scaled fast — which is great — except their cloud bill scaled even faster. Resources were deployed everywhere: unused instances, idle databases, oversized infrastructure… basically a museum of forgotten experiments. We started…
Can an AI agent determine whether two code patches are functionally equivalent without executing either one? Meta researchers Shubham Ugare and Satish Chandra say yes — if you give the agent the right reasoning structure. Their paper, “Agentic Code Reasoning,” published in March, introduces a technique called semi-formal reasoning that improves AI agents’ ability to analyze code semantics across three practical tasks: Verifying whether patches produce the same behavior, localizing bugs in codebases, and answering questions about how code works. The results are strong enough to matter for how DevOps teams think about code review, verification, and training pipelines. The…