A practical approach to escaping the expensive, slow world of API-dependent AI The $20K Monthly Reality Check You built a simple sentiment analyzer for customer reviews. It works great. Except it costs $847/month in API calls and takes 2.3 seconds to classify a single review. Your “smart” document classifier burns through $3,200/month. Your chatbot feature? $15,000/month and counting. The Shared Pain: Bloated AI features that drain budgets faster than they create value High latency that kills user experience (nobody waits 3 seconds for a “smart” response) Privacy concerns when sensitive data must leave your network Compliance nightmares when proprietary data…
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Austin, TX, USA, August 6th, 2025, CyberNewsWireSpyCloud Investigations, now with AI Insights, empowers security teams to act decisively with finished intelligence built from billions of breach, malware, and phishing records.SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to its SaaS Investigations solution: the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud’s seasoned investigators. Building on the foundation of its industry-leading IDLink identity analytics, this new capability further automates and accelerates complex cybercrime investigations, empowering security operations, cyber threat intelligence, and fraud & risk prevention teams to uncover critical findings faster than ever to…
If you’ve been anywhere near a tech conference, your LinkedIn feed, or a DevOps Slack channel lately, you’ve probably heard someone claim AI is either the greatest productivity weapon since version control… or the world’s most overhyped autocomplete. Depending on who’s talking, AI is either saving the day or slowing workflow to a crawl. As always, the truth lies somewhere in between.Let’s start with numbers—because CEOs love numbers. A recent GitLab–Harris Poll survey, spotlighted on DevOps.com, reveals that C-level executives believe their organizations are saving about $28,249 per developer per year thanks to AI—citing a 48% boost in developer productivity…
Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the country. Huge shout out to the organizers for planning such a fun event and facilitating an attendee party where we all got to make some great new friends (and even see a few magic tricks!). I’m honored they asked me to give two sessions this year, thank you to everyone who attended and asked thought provoking questions that really took the sessions to a new level. Hope we can stay connected…
The Next Evolution of Docker Hardened Images: Customizable, FedRAMP Ready, AI Migration Agent, and Deeper Integrations Discover how Docker Hardened Images are evolving with AI-assisted migration, FedRAMP-ready variants, advanced customization, and deeper integrations. Build secure, compliant containers – faster.
‘Great product, great community feel, relaxed and friendly atmosphere’ ‘I love working for Shoptimised and feel privileged that I’m part of such a brilliant company and I’m truly excited to see what the future holds for us all.’ ‘It’s a great place to work. The general feel/vibe of the office is really good. I feel like good work is acknowledged and valued, and I really appreciate the monthly performance reviews which has a clear outline on how to improve, and also secure extra pay.’ ‘The management/team leaders are all very knowledgeable and approachable which makes a great work environment. There…
‘Great product, great community feel, relaxed and friendly atmosphere’ ‘I love working for Shoptimised and feel privileged that I’m part of such a brilliant company and I’m truly excited to see what the future holds for us all.’ ‘It’s a great place to work. The general feel/vibe of the office is really good. I feel like good work is acknowledged and valued, and I really appreciate the monthly performance reviews which has a clear outline on how to improve, and also secure extra pay.’ ‘The management/team leaders are all very knowledgeable and approachable which makes a great work environment. There…
Software development is a moving target. In a world where organisations want faster to market, more agile and higher quality output, continuous integration (CI) has become a standard process in the new software development lifecycle (SDLC). Code is integrated and tested with CI, reducing friction between operational teams and development teams, reducing workflow complexity and increasing overall output quality. Where change happens fast, CI is no longer a nice-to-have but a must-have. In this post, we’ll be looking at a reason why Continuous Integration has never been more important and how, with DevOps culture and CI/CD pipelines, it’s changed the development…
Black Duck Software, this week at the Black Hat USA 2025 conference, revealed it has now integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) tool for securing software, dubbed Black Duck Assist, into the company’s plug-in for integrated developer environments (IDEs).In addition to IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Visual Studio, Code Sight is now available for AI code editors such as Cursor and Windsurf to ensure code being generated by AI coding tools is also free of common vulnerabilities. It also provides vulnerability summaries and code analysis without requiring application developers to switch to a different tool.Black Duck Assist also now supports…
ArmorCode, this week at the Black Hat USA 2025 conference, revealed it has extended its Anya artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate suggested code fixes that are customized for specific runtime environments.At the same time, ArmorCode is adding a software supply chain module to provide visibility into the usage of software components in a way that surfaces quality metrics, security posture assessments and health indicators to identify risks. The module also automates the generation of composite software bill of materials (SBOMs) via integration with the Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) format that is needed to comply with, for example, the Cyber…