Internal developer platforms have become a tangled web of orchestration tools, CI runners and deployment systems that rarely speak the same language. Every new integration adds another translation layer, and as AI-driven automation starts to plug into those pipelines, the lack of a shared vocabulary for what is actually happening across the software delivery lifecycle […]

Engineering roadmaps inside enterprises that never planned to build AI products are now being eaten by AI work. Teams at hospitals, banks and government agencies are spending huge chunks of their sprint capacity wiring up models, UI components and accessibility plumbing for AI features that aren’t core to what their business actually does. The mismatch […]

OpenTelemetry just hit graduated status at the CNCF, and the timing matters more than the milestone itself. After years of consolidating what used to be OpenTracing and OpenCensus, the project has quietly become the default way modern applications emit traces, metrics and logs — right as the industry is staring down a new wave of […]

The threat model that DevSecOps teams have been working from for the last decade was built around accidental vulnerabilities — mistakes that needed to be found and fixed before someone exploited them. That assumption is breaking. Vulnerabilities are increasingly being treated as strategic assets, stockpiled by nation-states and threat actors and held back from disclosure […]

The default reaction to vibe coding has been alarm — a default assumption that letting AI write large chunks of an application is going to flood production with vulnerabilities and undocumented behavior. That fear is doing as much damage as the bad code people are afraid of. Teams that freeze, ban the tools or push […]

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is moving faster than the developer community can keep up with, racing past its original design parameters and leaving teams scrambling to build clients that can match its pace. The result is an ecosystem where the protocol itself keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and where the tooling, conventions and security […]

The XZ Utils backdoor was a wake-up call, but the underlying problem it exposed has not gone away. Sophisticated adversaries are playing the long game, spending months or years earning trust within open source projects before introducing malicious code into libraries that sit at the foundation of modern software infrastructure. Mike Vizard and Josh Bressers, […]

Shared staging environments were never designed for a world where dozens of changes land in a codebase every hour. Yet most engineering teams still depend on them as the primary checkpoint before production. Alan Shimel and Arjun Iyer, CEO of Signadot, dig into why that model is falling apart and what needs to replace it. […]

AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations. The volume of AI-generated code is growing rapidly, but without a reliable way to validate that code against real production environments, teams are left choosing between slowing down […]

As AI coding tools accelerate software delivery, they are also intensifying a problem DevOps and SRE teams have been dealing with for years: the unchecked growth of observability data. In this conversation, the founders of Sawmills argue that telemetry volume is no longer just a cost issue. It is becoming a data quality problem that […]

Following a $50 million funding round, GitGuardian CEO Eric Fourrier discusses why secrets security is becoming a much bigger problem in the age of AI-generated code and autonomous agents. As more organizations rush to deploy coding assistants and AI agents, Fourrier argues that the number of exposed credentials, API keys and tokens is rising just […]

Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply and creator of Apache Druid, explains how the rapid adoption of open source OpenTelemetry for instrumenting applications is reshaping modern observability architectures. As telemetry data volumes surge, organizations are moving toward an “observability warehouse” model that unifies logs, metrics and traces into a scalable analytics foundation capable of…

AI is showing up everywhere in software delivery, but project management is where a lot of the real friction lives. Newly appointed Planview CEO Matt Zilli talks through why planning and delivery still break down inside modern organizations, even when teams have more data and more tools than ever. Zilli’s point is simple: the problem […]

Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, unpacks what’s changing in platform engineering as AI reshapes who gets to build, and how infrastructure actually gets managed. Baron traces the origin story back to his time building high-scale systems at Instana (which exited to IBM in 2020), where the reality of “always-on” platforms made […]