“Why do you spend so much time creating artifacts before telling your AI agent to start coding?” This is a question that reveals a growing disconnect in how many teams are approaching AI in software development. While AI continues to advance rapidly, simply plugging it into an integrated development environment (IDE) and asking for code isn’t enough. Today’s AI agents can navigate codebases, interpret architectural documentation, analyze logs, execute CLI commands and, in some cases, even ship entire pull requests. In fact, some agents have gone from contributing just 10-15% of code generation to 50-60% of it. According to Stack Overflow, 82%…
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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 naturally, the pay…
From where I stand, the decision between Cosmos DB and a traditional SQL database often wants to be chosen between a sports car and a reliable sedan. Both will get you where you need to go, but the experience, trade-offs, and underlying engineering philosophies are worlds apart. In this post, I want to walk through why I lean one way in some projects and the other way in different contexts, weaving in lessons I’ve picked up along the way.Embracing the No-SQL MindsetCosmos DB isn’t just a database, it’s a distributed, multi-model platform that challenges you to think differently about data.…
Citizen development is a thorny subject; allowing business “laypersons” to impact the way software application code is structured, aligned and executed is an unpopular concept with command line purists who would prefer to keep the suits at arm’s length, if not further.But, equally, you can’t fight progress and AI obviously has an impact on the way programming practices will be carried out in the immediate future. Microsoft’s preexisting approach to coalescing business domain specialists into the fold of the development team’s mission was to adopt the notion of what it has called fusion development teams. What is Fusion Software Development?Somewhat like…
A customer was asking about how to track all the stored procedures that execute on their system. We have a section in Redgate Monitor that’s set to look at stored procedures, and you can easily find information about them.This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor. Click to see the other posts.Finding Stored ProceduresIf I go to the SQLServerCentral_Test system on monitor.red-gate.com, I can scroll down and see the top queries for the time period selected. Here’s an example of a query. The main query window shows SQL, but these are parts of procs.If I expand to…
Everywhere you turn these days, AI is reshaping how we build and deliver software. From GitHub Copilot writing code to autonomous testing frameworks finding bugs before developers even blink, the promise of faster, smarter, more efficient pipelines is undeniable. And now we’re entering the next frontier: Agentic AI — self-directed agents capable of not only generating code but also testing, deploying and monitoring it.In other words, the machines aren’t just helping us anymore. They’re starting to run the show.It’s a thrilling vision — software development at machine speed. But here’s the problem: Taking humans completely out of the loop in…
An analysis of the code created by large language models (LLMs) finds that in addition to having a tendency toward creating messy code that introduces security weaknesses and vulnerabilities into the output generated.Sonar today published a report based on its proprietary analysis framework for assessing LLM-generated code spanning more than 4,400 Java programming assignments. The LLMs evaluated included Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and 3.7, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Meta’s Llama-3.2-vision:90b and OpenCoder-8B. Each model has its own “coding personality” and possesses a strong ability to generate syntactically correct code and boilerplate for common frameworks and functions. For example, Claude Sonnet 4’s success rate…
The DevOps landscape is experiencing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence begins to automate traditionally manual coding tasks. Enter Shadow, an innovative open-source background coding agent that’s redefining how development teams interact with codebases, manage repositories and accelerate their delivery pipelines.What Makes Shadow DifferentShadow isn’t just another AI coding assistant; it’s a comprehensive agent environment designed to understand, reason about and actively contribute to existing codebases. Built with MIT licensing for open-source adoption, Shadow creates what its developers call “The Shadow Realm,” isolated execution environments where AI agents can work autonomously on GitHub repositories.The platform’s architecture addresses a critical pain…
The Eclipse Foundation today launched an Open Source Compliance: Comprehensive Techniques and Essential Tools (OCCTET) project specifically designed to help smaller organizations comply with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enacted by the European Union (EU).Scheduled to take effect by September 2026, the CRA defines a mandatory set of cybersecurity requirements for all digital products, including software, sold in the EU, that apply to manufacturers, software vendors and maintainers of open-source software projects.The OCCTET project is creating a toolkit that includes a CRA compliance checklist, conformity assessment specifications, automated evaluation methods and tools, a federated database for publishing assessments of open…
Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward At Black Hat 2025, CVEs dominated the conversation. See how Docker Hardened Images, proven security patterns, and AI-ready foundations help teams eliminate security debt, enforce compliance, and build trust from code to production.