GitHub’s new Stacked Pull Requests feature restructures how developers submit and review changes by allowing large code updates to be broken into smaller, interdependent units. With Stacked PRs, each unit can be reviewed and merged individually while still contributing to the overall feature set. The approach helps developers shift away from monolithic pull requests, which […]
Open Source’s ‘Eternal September’, GitHub Keeps Maintainers Covered for All Seasons
Open source is experiencing an “Eternal September” due to a massive influx of contributions fueled by AI. While this increases engagement, it overwhelms maintainers. GitHub is introducing tools like interaction limits and improved triage to protect maintainer sustainability and trust.
Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform
Qodo 2.0 adds memory-enabled, task-specific AI agents to its LLM-based code-review platform, improving defect recall and F1 performance to help DevOps scale code quality as AI-generated code rises.
CI/CD Pipelines for Large Teams: How to Keep Velocity Without Breaking the Build
Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential for modern software teams, as there is now a need for fast feature delivery and high-velocity improvements. However, achieving high speed may be difficult without compromising reliability, as the process involves coordinating among development teams working on different features of the same application simultaneously, product complexity […]
The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 2)
In part one of this two-part series, I explored how organizations can more effectively automate security quality decisions and discard doing automation for automation’s sake. I shared why security scans need to be faster, more reliable and comprehensive. Only then can security be meaningfully automated into developer workflows without slowing them down. But, the other […]
7 Highly Effective Continuous Delivery Principles
If you’re in the IT space and you weren’t born yesterday, then you understand the need for speed. Development and release cycles are now faster than ever as companies implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CD). Browsers and social media sites, for example, are doing multiple releases a day, and organizations that want to keep […]