Senior Backend Software Engineer
Author: drweb
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 […]
OpenAI is buying artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted coding tool Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion in its largest acquisition to date. The long-rumored deal, reported by Bloomberg News on Monday, should significantly boost ChatGPT’s coding functionality as well as put OpenAI in position to more effectively compete in the fledgling market for AI-powered […]
2025 was the year when AI ambition met operational reality. Across industries, enterprises entered the year with strong expectations around AI-driven transformation. What followed instead was a period marked by budget pressure, project cancellations, stalled pilots, and a growing demand for clarity. As we worked with organizations in this environment, certain patterns kept repeating. They were not tied to industry or company size, and they did not depend on specific tools. Instead, they reflected how AI initiatives were positioned, owned, and carried through once initial momentum met operational reality. Looking ahead to 2026, these patterns feel worth naming, not as prescriptions, but as signals…
Browser hijacker malware alters the way a browser behaves without the user’s consent. Most commonly, it sets a different default search engine, forces unwanted ads, installs unknown extensions, or redirects traffic to unsafe websites. These threats often come in the form of bundled software or malicious downloads, targeting regular users rather than enterprise systems.Python is great for catching and cleaning these in personal environments. It provides direct access to the file system, supports process and network inspection, and facilitates the automation of repetitive checks. With a few targeted scripts, Python can be used to find suspicious browser settings or unwanted…
It turns out Builder.ai was more artificial than intelligent. The $1.5 billion artificial intelligence (AI) company backed by Microsoft Corp. recently shuttered operations after its neural network was exposed to actually be 700 engineers in India. Builder.ai, which has begun formal bankruptcy proceedings in jurisdictions where it operated, including India, the U.K., and the U.S., […]
Look, if you’re a data or AI nerd, your biggest enemy isn’t the competition. It’s the fact that your brain has way too many tabs open at once.You’re probably sitting there thinking about building some massive ML model or a deep diagnostic tool, and meanwhile, you end up stuck in “builder mode” forever. Nothing actually hits the market this month because you’re too busy making it perfect.Also, let’s be real. Working for yourself is a total trap. Without a boss or a team breathing down your neck, “I’ll finish this by Tuesday” easily turns into “I’ll get to it eventually.”The…
Learn how agentic AI and real-time anomaly detection create self-healing DevOps pipelines. This guide covers architectures, code examples, and metrics to cut MTTR by up to 90%.
In this article, we will go through the various steps to install the constituent packages in the LAMP stack with PHP 8.3 and MariaDB 11 on Ubuntu 24.04 Server and Desktop editions. As you may already know, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) stack is an assortment of leading open source web development software packages. This web platform is made up of a web server, a database management system, and a server-side scripting language, and is acceptable for building dynamic websites and a wide range of web applications. One of the common uses of the LAMP stack is for running…
Your codebase isn’t food, but AI agents are more than happy to devour it. Teams keep handing over entire repositories because automation feels like a cheat code for productivity. The problem shows up later, when those same agents behave like overeager interns copying the wrong patterns, amplifying your technical debt or quietly leaking sensitive logic into their […]