TL;DR — Key Takeaways AI-generated code is accelerating delivery—and overwhelming review processes built for human-speed development. More code means more risk. Security flaws, dependency changes, technical debt and architectural drift become harder to spot as AI output scales. Visibility is becoming the leadership advantage. Teams need live signals from the codebase, not just tickets, issue counts and planned-work metrics. AI coding is a governance decision, not merely a tooling decision. Automated review, code-quality analysis and security testing must scale alongside generation. AI code generation has delivered on its first promise. Teams are shipping more, covering more test cases, and moving…
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The first time a machine finished my paragraph better than I would have, I felt a small chill. You know the one. Then I leaned in, looked closer, and found something oddly comforting waiting there. Nobody. There is nobody in there. That is not an insult to the machine, it is the whole point, and it is the name of my new book, AI: Nobody’s in There. Thirty short essays about working next to something very clever and completely empty, and why that emptiness is quietly the best news you will get all year.The Chill Is Real. So Is the Relief.Let…
When a certificate expires, it can take down a production system, and teams usually only find out after something goes wrong. These issues are hard to catch because they rarely trigger alerts. Expired certificates often remain unnoticed in a config file or an old key until they cause trouble.Enterprise apps are no longer single, self-contained programs. Today, a typical app includes many services, APIs, mobile clients, and new cloud workloads are added all the time. Instead of asking, “Are we secure enough?” it is better to ask whether security was built in from the beginning or added later. Most teams…
TL;DR — Key TakeawaysHarness is bringing CI/CD to AI agents. Teams can now build, test, deploy and govern agents through familiar DevOps workflows.Traditional testing is not enough. Agents can behave differently on identical inputs, making regressions harder to catch and failures harder to reproduce.AgentTrace exposes the decision path. Teams can see which tools an agent used, what actions it took and where a run went wrong.Harness today extended the reach of its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to enable DevOps teams to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents.At the core of that capability are five additions to the…
Prometheus stores every metric it collects in its own time-series database (TSDB). Over time, this database grows, and if your disk fills up or the server goes down, you’ll need to know how to manage and recover it. You might install Prometheus, configure a few targets, and let it run for months without any issues. Then one day, /var/lib/prometheus becomes full, Prometheus refuses to start, and you find a directory full of numbered folders without knowing what they are or whether it’s safe to remove them. In this chapter, you’ll learn where Prometheus stores its data, how to configure data…
TL;DR — Key TakeawaysHashiCorp has launched tfpolicy in public beta, allowing teams to write Terraform governance policies directly in HCL.tfpolicy can evaluate resource relationships, external data, provider and module usage, and live infrastructure after deployment.The framework reduces reliance on separate policy languages and tools while bringing governance closer to existing Terraform workflows.HashiCorp has introduced Terraform policy (tfpolicy), a new policy-as-code framework built directly into Terraform. Now available in public beta on HCP Terraform, tfpolicy lets platform teams write governance rules in HCL, the same language they already use to define infrastructure, rather than reaching for a separate policy tool and…
TL;DR — Key TakeawaysxAI released Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license shortly after researchers discovered undocumented repository uploads.The uploads reportedly included unused files, SSH keys, environment files and other sensitive developer data.Open sourcing improves transparency, but teams should still audit network traffic, restrict agent permissions and rotate potentially exposed credentials.xAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed the tool quietly shipping entire developer repositories — SSH keys and password databases included — to a Google…
A gentleman joined my call looking like he had not slept in a month. His website checkout had been slow for six months. Six months! He threw money at it. A bigger server. More memory. He even rewrote the same code twice. The slowness said thank you and stayed. Then, about seventy five minutes into our database performance health check, we found the troublemaker sitting right there on the screen. By the time our tea went cold, the fix was already live. So please, do not call me a genius. I just looked in the right place. That is the whole…
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 ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
In the previous post, we’ve built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack container in a Macbook. If you are like me who switched from a Windows laptop to MacBook, you are probably missing your SQL Server. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a sandbox that is separate from your all other instances for testing and learning. This is exactly what we’re trying to do here.Download the BackupFor this exercise we want to download the full backup of Wide World Importers. Go ahead and download it from the github repo which you can find it here. And of course,…