#scaling-and-systems
#scaling-and-systems

21 hours ago

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

eBay pioneered many technologies but ultimately could not save the company despite doubling engineering productivity.

13 hours ago

Agentic CI/CD is Not Automation: Why the Distinction Will Define DevOps in 2026 - DevOps.com

LLM-powered agents in CI/CD require a governance layer distinct from traditional automation to avoid catastrophic failures.

#cloud-computing

12 hours ago

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

AI is challenging traditional cloud pricing models, as buyers seek exceptional value beyond brand recognition and familiar pricing strategies.

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

Hyperscalers are projected to dominate global datacentre capacity, reaching 67% by 2031, driven by AI growth.

Enterprises demand cloud value

Businesses are shifting from cost-cutting to establishing centers of excellence and finops to enhance ROI in cloud investments.

12 hours ago

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

AI is challenging traditional cloud pricing models, as buyers seek exceptional value beyond brand recognition and familiar pricing strategies.

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

Hyperscalers are projected to dominate global datacentre capacity, reaching 67% by 2031, driven by AI growth.

Enterprises demand cloud value

Businesses are shifting from cost-cutting to establishing centers of excellence and finops to enhance ROI in cloud investments.

Quantum Agile By Codewave Becomes India's first framework for software teams working with AI agents.

Quantum Agile™ is India's first framework for software teams utilizing AI agents, positioning the country as a leader in next-gen software development methodologies.

Productivity

fromMountaingoatsoftware

7 hours ago

Why Smart Teams Overcommit And How Leaders Make It Worse

Leaders should avoid pressuring teams into overcommitting, as teams often do this themselves due to their inherent optimism.

fromFactory.ai

14 hours ago

How Missions Work | Factory.ai

Missions system enhances agent performance by breaking complex tasks into focused units handled by fresh agents with clear goals.

Marketing tech

fromMarTech

8 hours ago

How's your martech stack shaping up? | MarTech

Marketers are invited to participate in the 2026 State of Your Stack survey to assess their martech stack's effectiveness and compare it with industry standards.

41 minutes ago

Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

Commvault's AI Protect monitors AI agents in cloud environments and can roll back actions to enhance AI resilience.

Media industry

fromInc

9 hours ago

The Content Strategy Mistake Almost Every Founder Makes

Timeliness and relevance are crucial for story selection in newsrooms, overshadowing credentials and personal achievements.

UX design

fromMarTech

Are you buying simplicity or dependency in CreativeOps? | MarTech

CreativeOps buyers face a choice between perceived simplification and underlying dependency in their production ecosystems.

Growth hacking

8 hours ago

What Start-Up Marketing Teaches L&D Teams About Measuring Training ROI

L&D teams must adopt marketing-style measurement metrics to effectively assess training impact on behavior and performance.

fromTechCrunch

7 hours ago

How vibe coding app Anything is rebuilding after getting booted from the App Store twice | TechCrunch

Dhruv Amin stated, 'We built a mobile app primarily to let our users who are building iOS apps preview their own app on their own device while developing it. [We] had no problems through December. Post December, we and everyone else in the category started getting our updates blocked.'

Apple

UK news

13 hours ago

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program

The UK's NS&I faces a £3 billion overhaul crisis, with delays and budget overruns prompting a review of its digital transformation plans.

Remote teams

fromTNW | Offers

Best HR management software in 2026: tools that scale with your business

Choosing the right HR management software is crucial for efficiency and effectiveness in growing companies.

Bootstrapping

fromEntrepreneur

Your Business Won't Scale Unless You Accept This Hard Truth

Leaders must delegate tasks to ensure business scalability and avoid being overqualified for daily operations.

London startup

fromwww.businessinsider.com

Datacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly

Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.

Careers

The future may be 'frustrating' for engineers seeking a 'pure software development career,' AWS VP says

Junior software engineers may increasingly engage with customers rather than solely focusing on coding in isolation.

Data science

fromTNW | Data-Security

Why data quality matters when working with data at scale

Data quality should be prioritized from the start to prevent costly issues later in data engineering projects.

Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?

In the fintech industry we can link latency directly to profit and money. If I have lower latency than the competition, I can get to the better deals, I can make the better deals.

Venture

Web frameworks

Intellectual property law

Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook

Sam Bhagwat is a co-founder and CEO of Mastra, an open source JavaScript/Typescript framework for building AI agents.

fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law

Your AI Is Saving You Time: So What?

AI's integration into patent work has shifted from skepticism to acceptance, prompting a need to measure its true value beyond just efficiency.

fromHarvard Business Review

Set it up once, test it properly, and let the system handle the rest.

Automating SSL certificate renewal prevents production outages and reduces stress during incidents.

#generative-ai

9 hours ago

Artificial intelligence

The Hidden Demand for AI Inside Your Company

Artificial intelligence

Meta's Muse Spark: a smaller, faster AI model for broad app deployment

How agile practices ensure quality in GenAI-assisted development

Generative AI enhances coding speed but increases technical debt without Agile practices like pair programming and automated tests.

fromHarvard Business Review

9 hours ago

The Hidden Demand for AI Inside Your Company

Many corporate gen AI programs fail, leading employees to use personal AI tools secretly.

Meta's Muse Spark: a smaller, faster AI model for broad app deployment

Generative AI is moving from pilots to production, focusing on efficiency and seamless integration into user-facing software.

How agile practices ensure quality in GenAI-assisted development

Generative AI enhances coding speed but increases technical debt without Agile practices like pair programming and automated tests.

more#generative-ai

#ai-adoption

fromFast Company

11 hours ago

Here's how to jump-start your company's AI transformation in 90 days

AI adoption is crucial for organizations to remain competitive and create value in a rapidly changing market.

AI deployment in networks is stalling as pressure on infrastructure mounts

AI adoption in network environments is slower than expected, with increasing infrastructure demands and significant challenges in deployment and integration.

fromFast Company

11 hours ago

Here's how to jump-start your company's AI transformation in 90 days

AI adoption is crucial for organizations to remain competitive and create value in a rapidly changing market.

AI deployment in networks is stalling as pressure on infrastructure mounts

AI adoption in network environments is slower than expected, with increasing infrastructure demands and significant challenges in deployment and integration.

Claude Code Can Now Run Your Desktop - DevOps.com

Claude can now control your desktop, performing tasks while you are away, enhancing productivity through AI.

Information security

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

DevOps

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing - DevOps.com

DevOps

Rebrand automation as 'zero-token architecture' to master AI

Artificial intelligence

Software at the speed of AI

13 hours ago

Claude Code Can Now Run Your Desktop - DevOps.com

Claude can now control your desktop, performing tasks while you are away, enhancing productivity through AI.

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

Artificial intelligence accelerates innovation and cyber threats, necessitating a focus on runtime security for effective enterprise protection.

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing - DevOps.com

CloudBees Smart Tests uses AI to prioritize tests, reducing CI/CD processing time significantly.

Rebrand automation as 'zero-token architecture' to master AI

IT professionals can enhance productivity by rebranding existing automations as 'zero-token architecture' to manage AI costs effectively.

Artificial intelligence

Software at the speed of AI

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough

ServiceNow integrates AI into its offerings, providing tiered pricing based on AI capabilities for customers.

#agentic-ai

Information security

Commvault launches AI tools for secure agentic AI era

AI-driven operating model key to cloud-native, autonomous networks | Computer Weekly

Agentic AI can transform telecom networks if operators establish cloud-native maturity and integrate autonomy while maintaining reliability.

Information security

Commvault launches AI tools for secure agentic AI era

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

AI-driven operating model key to cloud-native, autonomous networks | Computer Weekly

Agentic AI can transform telecom networks if operators establish cloud-native maturity and integrate autonomy while maintaining reliability.

The productivity question AI forces us to ask

Productivity tools increase capabilities but also raise expectations, leading to a cycle of anxiety and an overwhelming pace of work.

London startup

London's data centre surge is creating a capacity squeeze for businesses across the capital - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

London's data centre market is expanding rapidly due to rising demand, but securing timely access to infrastructure is becoming increasingly challenging for businesses.

UX design

fromSmashing Magazine

How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems - Smashing Magazine

Improving UX in legacy systems requires gradual progress while addressing user and stakeholder needs.

Design

Panel: Taking Architecture Out of the Echo Chamber

Architecture's importance is growing, necessitating a shift in practice to avoid past mistakes and engage with broader conversations.

21 hours ago

Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker

Docker Extensions enhance developer productivity but may not meet enterprise needs for security, compliance, and integration.

fromApp Developer Magazine

IT spending rises as banks balance legacy and innovation

Financial institutions are increasing IT budgets to balance innovation, legacy systems, and regulation, focusing on business value and operational resilience.

Async Logging Is Not a Silver Bullet - What Actually Limits Performance

Async logging redistributes costs rather than reducing them, impacting performance in different ways depending on implementation.

Mastra AI - The Modern Framework for Building Production-Ready AI Agents

Creating reliable, scalable AI systems requires more than simple prompts; it involves building infrastructure and managing complex workflows.

#artificial-intelligence

Marketing tech

fromDigiday

Why marketing is now the operating system for growth

Artificial intelligence is transforming marketing into a central growth engine, influencing brand perception for both humans and automated systems.

Leading AI Companies Driving Enterprise Adoption

Leading AI companies are essential for effective enterprise adoption, focusing on strategy and integration to drive measurable impact.

Marketing tech

fromDigiday

Why marketing is now the operating system for growth

Artificial intelligence is transforming marketing into a central growth engine, influencing brand perception for both humans and automated systems.

more#artificial-intelligence

Leading AI Companies Driving Enterprise Adoption

Leading AI companies are essential for effective enterprise adoption, focusing on strategy and integration to drive measurable impact.

fromAzure DevOps Blog

2 hours ago

April Patches for Azure DevOps Server - Azure DevOps Blog

Customers should update to the latest version of Azure DevOps Server for security and reliability.

Custom AI Governance Services: The Missing Piece In Your L&D Strategy

Many L&D teams adopt AI tools without ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability in their training programs.

GAIA by AMD - Running Intelligent Systems Fully on Your Own Machine

GAIA is an open-source framework enabling local execution of intelligent agents, eliminating external dependencies and enhancing data control.

How AI could drive cyber investigation tools from niche to core stack

The rise of AI presents new cybersecurity risks, necessitating a shift from traditional defensive strategies to proactive measures against sophisticated threats.

fromSecurityWeek

TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

TeamPCP has exploited compromised credentials to target open source software, leading to significant data exfiltration and supply chain attacks.

How AI could drive cyber investigation tools from niche to core stack

The rise of AI presents new cybersecurity risks, necessitating a shift from traditional defensive strategies to proactive measures against sophisticated threats.

fromSecurityWeek

TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

TeamPCP has exploited compromised credentials to target open source software, leading to significant data exfiltration and supply chain attacks.

ServiceNow makes its entire portfolio AI-native for every customer

ServiceNow is integrating AI into its entire product portfolio, eliminating separate AI licenses and introducing the Context Engine for enhanced decision-making.

Cloudflare introduces new features for building and deploying agents

Cloudflare is transforming AI development with Dynamic Workers, Sandboxes, and Artifacts for secure, scalable, and efficient code execution.

fromTechCrunch

Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent | TechCrunch

Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like features for its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool aimed at enterprise customers with enhanced security controls.

fromThe Verge

Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like AI bots for 365 Copilot

Microsoft is integrating OpenClaw features into 365 Copilot for autonomous task completion.

#ai-agents

Celonis and Oracle collaborate on identifying automation and AI opportunities

Celonis Process Intelligence Platform integrates with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enhance AI capabilities and optimize business processes.

Google's Scion Gives Developers a Smarter Way to Run AI Agents in Parallel - DevOps.com

Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed for managing concurrent AI agents, preventing conflicts and enhancing collaboration.

Celonis and Oracle collaborate on identifying automation and AI opportunities

Celonis Process Intelligence Platform integrates with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enhance AI capabilities and optimize business processes.

Online Community Development

Google's Scion Gives Developers a Smarter Way to Run AI Agents in Parallel - DevOps.com

Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed for managing concurrent AI agents, preventing conflicts and enhancing collaboration.

more#ai-agents

3 weeks ago

Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence

Platform engineering drives sociotechnical change by integrating social and technical systems within organizations for improved collaboration and reliability.

#devops

DevOps

Kubernetes Is Not DevOps : A Short Story

DevOps

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.

Software development

DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation

AI enables DevOps to shift from reactive monitoring to predictive detection, intelligent rollouts, and automated remediation, accelerating delivery and modernizing operations.

Kubernetes Is Not DevOps : A Short Story

Understanding systems behind tools is crucial for effective DevOps engineering.

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

DevOps.com is launching a weekly jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals.

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.

Software development

DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation

more#devops

fromwww.housingwire.com

Interactive dashboards: A move from optional to essential

Interactive dashboards enhance speed and transparency in mortgage servicing, enabling real-time data access and faster decision-making.

#aws

fromAmazon Web Services

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies web application deployment and scaling, now enhanced with AI Analysis for troubleshooting environment health issues.

AWS targets AI agent sprawl with new Bedrock Agent Registry

AWS introduces Agent Registry to help enterprises manage and govern AI agents effectively.

fromAmazon Web Services

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies web application deployment and scaling, now enhanced with AI Analysis for troubleshooting environment health issues.

AWS targets AI agent sprawl with new Bedrock Agent Registry

AWS introduces Agent Registry to help enterprises manage and govern AI agents effectively.

Consolidation in a complex and aging enterprise IT environment

Federal agencies must pursue strategic IT consolidation to manage aging legacy systems while modernizing, requiring strong leadership, disciplined planning, and change management beyond technological decisions.

fromwww.facilitiesdive.com

Workplace management tech is prevalent, but integration challenges limit use: surveys

Most commercial real estate professionals fail to utilize workplace management technology data for effective space planning.

Broadcom combines AI and automation in Automic V26

Broadcom's Automic Automation V26 integrates AI into business processes while emphasizing control and governance to mitigate risks associated with unpredictability.

fromComputerworld

AI often doesn't deliver ROI for IT departments either

Only 28% of AI projects in infrastructure and operations achieve meaningful ROI, with many failing due to unrealistic expectations and skills gaps.

KubeCraft: Talk to Your Kubernetes Cluster Like a Colleague

KubeCraft simplifies Kubernetes management by allowing users to interact with their clusters using plain English through an AI assistant.

Bringing databases and Kubernetes together

Automating Kubernetes workloads with Operators can provide DBaaS functionality while avoiding provider lock-in.

Understanding Kubernetes Architecture is a MUST

Understanding Kubernetes architecture is essential for effective cloud-native deployment and troubleshooting.

KubeCraft: Talk to Your Kubernetes Cluster Like a Colleague

KubeCraft simplifies Kubernetes management by allowing users to interact with their clusters using plain English through an AI assistant.

Bringing databases and Kubernetes together

Automating Kubernetes workloads with Operators can provide DBaaS functionality while avoiding provider lock-in.

Understanding Kubernetes Architecture is a MUST

Understanding Kubernetes architecture is essential for effective cloud-native deployment and troubleshooting.

Architectural Governance at AI Speed

GenAI accelerates code production, challenging traditional oversight and necessitating a blend of centralized decision-making with automated governance for architectural cohesion.

Only 14 percent of companies achieved a high level of cloud maturity

Only 14% of organizations have achieved the highest level of cloud maturity despite AI driving demand for cloud investments.

fromUnited States Edition

AWS S3 buckets now support file systems

S3 Files is built on Amazon EFS and automatically translates file system operations into S3 requests, allowing applications to work with S3 data without code changes.

DevOps

Tech industry

Spotlight report: Accelerating Data Center Modernization

Data center modernization is critical for AI deployment, requiring integrated infrastructure solutions across servers, storage, networking, and security.

Miscellaneous

I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same. - DevOps.com

Cloud infrastructure requires understanding system behavior and costs to operate effectively at speed, similar to how skilled drivers anticipate conditions rather than simply driving fast.

E-Commerce

Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software

Theme systems enable highly customizable, scalable storefronts that let millions of merchants change appearance and layout while maintaining stable performance under massive traffic.

Replacing Database Sequences at Scale Without Breaking 100+ Services

Validating requirements can simplify complex problems, and embedding sequence generation reduces network calls, enhancing performance and reliability.

Using Azure Copilot for migration and modernization

Azure Copilot simplifies application migration to Azure while leveraging GitHub Copilot for updates.

Azure's new AI modernization tools

Microsoft's Azure Copilot aids in application migration and modernization, addressing technical debt and improving cloud infrastructure management.

Using Azure Copilot for migration and modernization

Azure Copilot simplifies application migration to Azure while leveraging GitHub Copilot for updates.

Azure's new AI modernization tools

Microsoft's Azure Copilot aids in application migration and modernization, addressing technical debt and improving cloud infrastructure management.

Harness adds four capabilities to close AI delivery gap

Harness is launching four new capabilities to enhance its Continuous Delivery platform, addressing the gap between code writing speed and release reliability.

How to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry

MCP registries are essential for integrating AI agents with enterprise systems, requiring semantic discovery, governance, and developer-friendly controls.

Architecting Autonomy at Scale: Raising Teams Without Creating Dependencies

Aligning architectural decision authority to C4 abstraction levels clarifies ownership boundaries for distributed teams without needing a central approver.

fromFast Company

Stop trying to replace your servers

Use AI to automate back-of-house operations and integrate tech stacks to preserve guest-facing hospitality while preparing for consumer-facing AI ordering channels.

#mainframe-modernization

fromDeveloper Tech News

BMC: Integrating mainframe systems into modern CI/CD pipelines

Mainframe systems must integrate into modern CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability, replacing legacy Waterfall approaches that prioritize stability over speed.

Software development

Mainframe Code Modernization Patterns - DevOps.com

fromDeveloper Tech News

BMC: Integrating mainframe systems into modern CI/CD pipelines

Mainframe systems must integrate into modern CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability, replacing legacy Waterfall approaches that prioritize stability over speed.

more#mainframe-modernization

Software development

Mainframe Code Modernization Patterns - DevOps.com

The death of reactive IT: How predictive engineering will redefine cloud performance in 10 years

Predictive engineering enables autonomous, anticipatory cloud operations that prevent outages, optimize resources, and replace reactive war-room operations.

Beyond the Monolith: The Rise of the AI Microservices Architecture

LangGraph models AI interactions as a state-machine graph with persistent state, semantic routing, and microservice agents for robust orchestration.

Why cloud migration needs a new approach

Existing cloud-native migration tools, infrastructure-as-code, and governance solutions fail to provide true infrastructure portability, causing multicloud fragmentation and migration friction.

[Video Podcast] The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools

Software architecture must be rethought for the age of AI tools, integrating design, platforms, APIs, delivery, and practical experiential guidance for real-world practitioners.

fromEntrepreneur

Build Enterprise-Grade Applications for Just $50

Developers spend more than 60% of their time debugging and maintaining code rather than building new features, Stack Overflow's Developer Survey reports. If you're running a software development team or building applications for your business, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio Pro to streamline coding workflows with an AI-enhanced development environment that reduces debugging time and accelerates deployment cycles. Best of all, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is currently available for only $49.99 (reg. $499.99).

Software development