Tag: automation
Resilient Middleware at Scale: Using YAML and Ansible to Harden Apache, WebLogic and Tomcat
Pramod Muppala | | automation, change management, Configuration as Code, middleware stability, observability, progressive delivery, resilient middlewareTransform your middleware into a resilient powerhouse with automation, consistent configuration, and progressive delivery. Discover how to reduce downtime and increase stability across Apache, Tomcat, WLS, and more ...
GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows
GitLab today made generally available an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform that automates software engineering tasks ranging from planning to application security. Coinciding with the release of version 18.8 of the core ...
Security Controls That Slow Teams Are Usually Poorly Designed
Venkata Nedunoori | | Approval Processes, automation, continuous change, devops, Friction Reduction, Gates vs. Guardrails, Human Oversight, incident management, Metrics for Success, operational efficiency, Policy Compliance., risk management, Security Controls, Security Workflow, Trust in SecurityDiscover strategies to enhance security controls in DevOps, emphasizing the shift from gates to guardrails and the importance of designing around real workflows ...
Part 1: Death of the Toil: How AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Runbooks
Muhammad Yawar Malik | | AI agents, AI in SRE, automation, Autonomous Systems, Cost Justification, engineering efficiency, human-in-the-loop, incident management, Incident Prevention, LLM, observability, Operational Toil, Predictive Systems, Reasoning Systems, Runbooks, Safe Action Execution, SREPart one of a three-part series: Discover how AI-driven reasoning agents are revolutionizing SRE practices by eliminating traditional toil and enhancing incident management ...
Best of 2025: The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep ...
Best of 2025: GitHub Copilot Evolves: Agent Mode and Multi-Model Support Transform DevOps Workflows
GitHub Copilot adds Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users, bringing agentic capabilities and multi-model choice that will revolutionize DevOps workflows ...
Enabling the Next Infrastructure Paradigm: Automation, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud Migrations
In a modern enterprise digital landscape, organizations are increasingly migrating between cloud platforms not merely for technical benefits but to support strategic business imperatives ranging from cost savings to market expansion. This ...
AWS Transform Modernizes Any Codebase, App, API or Runtime
Adrian Bridgwater | | application development, automation, AWS, devops, open source, security, software developmentPlatforms, paradigms, processes and processing itself all evolve. Because the information technology industry crosses from one chasm to another on an apparently endless loop of perpetual change, applications and wider systems need ...
Why Up to 70% of SRE Initiatives Stall Before They Scale — and How to Break the Plateau
Akash Thakur | | automation, cloud-native reliability, Cultural Change, DevOps transformation, error budgets, incident management, KPIs, leadership alignment, legacy bottlenecks, modernization barriers, observability, Operational Excellence, reliability engineering, site reliability engineering, SLOs, SRE, SRE adoption challenges, SRE maturity model, SRE plateau, SRE training, toil reductionMany SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone ...
System Initiative Extends Reach of IT Infrastructure Automation Platform
System Initiative today revealed it is now extending the reach of its digital twin platform for automating the management of IT infrastructure to any cloud computing environment, including now out-of-the-box support for ...
Learning From the Past: What Automation Mistakes Can Teach Us About AI
Across industries, organizations are rushing to embed AI into their operations. In fact, 84% of organizations are looking to add more AI capabilities within the next three years. From customer service bots ...
Qovery Adds Multiple AI Agents to DevOps Automation Platform
Qovery has added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps automation platform that, in addition to responding to natural language prompts and executing complex operations, also anticipates the next step in ...
