Tabnine introduces Tabnine Agentic, a new generation of AI agents that automate multi-step DevOps workflows including refactoring, debugging, and documentation. Built on Tabnine’s Context Engine, these agents bring governance, cost control, and compliance to AI-powered code development.
Google Adds App Modernization Tools to Generative AI Platform
Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.
Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.
Best of 2021 – Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many […]
Automated Refactoring with Moderne
Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich are co-founders of Moderne, a Seattle-based startup. Moderne received $4.7 million in seed funding in July 2021 to commercialize OpenRewrite, an open source automated refactoring tool for code (initially Java) that Schneider started while at Netflix. Moderne’s technology reduces the tedium and time it takes for software remediation; a big […]
vFunction Automates Conversion of Java Apps to Microservices
vFunction has developed an eponymous platform capable of automatically converting a monolithic application written in Java into a set of microservices. The startup is emerging from stealth mode today. Fresh from raising $12.2 million in seed funding, vFunction CEO Moti Rafalin said the company’s platform employs dynamic analysis, static analysis, data science and automation to […]
Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Even in 2021, many companies still run business-critical, legacy applications on-premises, just as they have for the last 20 to 30 years. The midrange server hardware, and their unique architecture, on which many of these applications run is both their biggest drawback and biggest advantage; the benefits of being able to vertically scale a platform […]