Ask any engineering team if they can build their own test automation framework, and the answer is almost always “yes.” With modern AI tools involved, that answer arrives faster and with more confidence than ever before. In 30 days, a capable team can spin up scripts, automate flows, generate test cases, and show a demo that genuinely impresses decision-makers.So, the case for building a homegrown test automation framework looks airtight… at first. But the demo is rarely where the story ends.The true reckoning tends to arrive around day 90, when the framework that proved the concept starts demanding the attention…
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Harness this week acquired Codecov, a provider of a platform that analyzes the percentage of a codebase that has been tested, from Sentry.Brad Rydzewski, a senior vice president and general manager for Harness, said Codecov makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track testing coverage at a time when the volume of code being created in the age of artificial intelligence is exponentially increasing.Codecov is already widely used by enterprises and maintainers to automatically run tests on any code that for one reason or another was not tested earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).Going forward, Harness plans to integrate…
AI coding assistants started as autocomplete. Now they’re running parallel workstreams, submitting pull requests, and managing their own review cycles. GitHub’s response to that shift is the GitHub Copilot app, announced at Microsoft Build 2026 — a dedicated desktop experience built specifically for what the company calls agent-native development.The move signals something important: Managing AI agents has become its own workflow problem, and GitHub is trying to solve it.The Problem It’s SolvingAgentic workflows have made development faster, but they’ve also created fragmented workflows, more context switching, and too much time spent reviewing agent-generated code. Context scatters across windows, you lose…
Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone from a niche embedded concern to a default option on a lot of architecture diagrams. Some of that is justified. A lot of it is people moving compute to the edge because it sounds modern, then paying for the privilege in operational pain. This post is the honest version: where edge AI and edge data engineering earn their keep, where they don’t, and how to tell the difference before you commit hardware to a field you’ll have to drive to when it breaks. The good: latency,…
While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on a previous post on QUOTENME().Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.Missing a RowWhen I ran this code, I got only a single row. There’s a UNION here, so why? One would expect two rows from these queries.Let’s change to UNION ALL. Now we see this:You can likely spot the reason, but it’s because both rows in the…
Microsoft just shipped Intelligent Terminal 0.1 — an open-source, experimental fork of Windows Terminal with native agent integration built in. It’s available now from the Microsoft Store or via WinGet (winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal), and it installs alongside your existing Windows Terminal without replacing it.This is an early release, clearly labeled as experimental. But it’s a meaningful signal about where Microsoft thinks the terminal is going.What it Actually DoesThe core idea is straightforward: Instead of copying an error message, opening a browser, hunting through Stack Overflow, and then jumping back to your shell, you stay in the terminal. An AI agent…
Cockpit ships pre-installed on Rocky Linux 10 and gives you a browser-based dashboard for managing your server from your browser: services, storage, networking, logs, and even a terminal, all on port 9090 without installing anything extra. Most people setting up a Rocky Linux server don’t realize that Cockpit is often already available or just a quick install away. You simply enable the service, open the firewall port (usually 9090), and then log in from your browser using the same username and password you already use for SSH. Once you’re inside Cockpit, you can manage common server tasks like checking system…
For most of the past decade, the conversation around regression testing tools was fairly stable. The tools got faster, the integrations got smoother, and the underlying approach stayed largely the same: write tests, run them in CI, fix failures. The fundamental model did not change much because the problem did not change much. AI-assisted development has changed the problem.When developers use AI coding assistants to generate significant portions of their codebase, the assumptions that most regression testing tools were built around start to break down in specific and consequential ways. The tools themselves have not been standing still – several…
In our State of Agentic AI report, 45% of organizations said they struggle to ensure the tools their agents use are secure and enterprise-ready. That number reflects a broader reality: AI agents are moving into production faster than the security practices around them are maturing. The challenge is not that organizations lack security awareness. It’s that agents behave fundamentally differently from the applications security teams are used to protecting. An agent decides on its own which tools to call, what data to pass between them, and how to chain actions together. Traditional controls built around static API endpoints and predefined…
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