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The maintainers of the open source OpenTelemetry project for collecting telemetry data are working toward adding support for artificial intelligence (AI) agents.Morgan McLean, a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project and a director of product management at Splunk, a unit of Cisco, said semantic extensions to OpenTelemetry will make it possible for observability platforms to also collect and analyze telemetry data generated by AI agents alongside other applications.The overall goal is to eliminate the need to deploy a separate platform to observe AI agents, he added.In general, adoption of OpenTelemetry has continued to accelerate as it has become simpler to deploy…

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At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with three industry leaders whose companies sit at the heart of today’s AI-driven DevOps transformation: Rahul Tripathi, general vice president and GM of ITSM at ServiceNow; Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA; and Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog.Tripathi, only months into his role at ServiceNow, stressed the importance of grounding product strategy in lived practitioner experience. Having led DevOps teams himself, he emphasized that ITSM remains the “bread and butter” of ServiceNow, but AI integration is reshaping expectations for productivity and security across IT…

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At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always a developer.” He still codes daily, keeping a hands-on perspective that influences how JFrog builds and communicates its platforms.That commitment to staying close to the keyboard led Arbel to create JFrog’s first experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server as an open source project. Uploaded to…

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Oasis Security this week warned application developers of a security flaw in the Cursor artificial intelligence (AI) code editor developed by Anysphere, Inc. that potentially could be used to allow a maliciously crafted code repository to execute code as soon as it’s opened using Cursor.Erez Schwartz, threat research engineer at Oasis Security, said that unlike other coding tools based on the open source Visual Studio (VS) Code tool originally developed by Microsoft, the Cursor AI tool disables a Workspace Trust feature by default.Application developers as a result might inadvertently auto-execute commands to open folders in a repository that might have…

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I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend. The first one is at Retro Data (20th of September), a new virtual conference focusing on established technology, instead of preview features. My session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform at 10AM UTC+2.The other session is a brand new one – Indexing for Dummies – and it will be given at the Cloud Data Driven user group (organizers of the Future Data Driven Summit) at the 25th of September (6PM UTC+2). The very same session will also be given at dataMinds Connect…

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Every year, JFrog’s swampUP conference gives us a look at what’s next in DevOps, software delivery, and increasingly, AI. This year’s event in Napa did not disappoint. If you’ve followed JFrog over the years, you know they have never been shy about leading the conversation on how software is built, secured, and shipped. At swampUP 2025, they reminded everyone once again: JFrog is not just keeping up with the industry—it’s defining it.In the DevOps world, it’s easy to get swept up in hype. AI, compliance, automation—everyone claims to be innovating. But JFrog’s announcements this week are more than marketing spin.…

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Warp has added a version of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for writing code that integrates directly within a command line interface (CLI).Company CEO Zach Lloyd said rather than working with AI agents within the context of an integrated development environment, Warp Code embeds AI agents with a CLI that is likely to prove more appealing to some developers and many DevOps engineers that prefer a traditional terminal-based coding experience.Warp Code is based on the same agentic AI framework as Warp, an AI coding tool that is designed to generate code from natural language prompts in a way that provides…

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A survey of 101 senior engineering leaders published this week finds while 87% believe their organization is “prepared” or “very prepared” to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). It’s also clear that several hurdles remain, most notably making sure application development teams have the quality assurance skill and expertise needed to validate AI outputs (66%).Conducted by Uplevel, a provider of a platform for tracking engineering metrics, the survey also finds engineering leaders are starting to focus more on performance monitoring and optimization (39%) and system architecture and integration skills (34%).Additionally, the survey identifies technical debt (27%) and lack of clear AI strategy…

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Today’s world of gaming comes in an expansive range that covers everything from shooting games to car games, fighting games, RPGs, casino games, multiplayer games, mobile games, sports games, and just about everything in between that one could imagine. The mechanics may differ from genre to genre, but what doesn’t change is that the coding behind the game needs to be solid to pass muster with players. While the programming complexity can differ from game to game, there’s still no room to make arbitrary mistakes or release games that don’t work as they should. Programming and Popular Casino Style GamesStrong programming…

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