At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with three industry leaders whose companies sit at the heart of today’s AI-driven DevOps transformation: Rahul Tripathi, general vice president and GM of ITSM at ServiceNow; Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA; and Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. Tripathi, […]
JFrog CEO: AI Agents Require Practices Beyond Security, Traceability
NAPA, Calif. — A new persona in software development, artificial intelligence (AI) agents rather than human developers, has made it imperative that foundational platforms incorporate agentic practices alongside security, traceability, and visibility to succeed in the AI era. “Every foundational platform requires a single system of record,” Ben Haim told the crowd. “If you don’t […]
StarCoder2 LLMs Designed Specifically to Generate Code Arrive
ServiceNow, Hugging Face and NVIDIA are advancing a generative AI platform specifically trained to generate high-quality code.
Identify Needs First
In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address it. So, “We need a new CI tool,” spawns a project to choose and implement a new CI tool, for example. But there […]
ServiceNow Adds Observability Platform to SaaS Portfolio
At its Knowledge 2023 conference, ServiceNow launched an observability service that runs on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Based on the observability platform the company gained with its acquisition of Lightstep, the ServiceNow Cloud Observability platform makes it possible to collect and analyze data collected from software running on infrastructure and also from workflows created using […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability
ServiceNow today announced it has agreed to acquire Era Software as part of an effort to add support for log data to the Lightstep observability platform the company acquired last year. Ben Sigelman, general manager for the Lightstep business unit at ServiceNow, said rather than reinventing the same log management capability that Era Software already […]
Lightstep Extending Beyond Observability with Lightstep Incident Response – Techstrong TV
Ben Sigelman and RJ Jainendra discuss ServiceNow’s latest announcement that Lightstep is extending beyond observability and creating a differentiated portfolio for app development with the general availability of Lightstep Incident Response, helping make organizations’ digital products and services more reliable and resilient. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Alan Shimel: […]
ServiceNow Adds Lightstep Notebooks to Visualize Observability Data
ServiceNow today added a visualization tool to its Lightstep observability platform that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to correlate metrics, logs and traces. Ben Sigelman, general manager for Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Notebooks will make it easier for DevOps teams to make sense of the massive amounts of data collected by the […]
JFrog Integrates with ServiceNow to Improve Software Security Vulnerability Response Times with “ServiceOps”
New JFrog Xray Integrations with ServiceNow Lightstep Incident Response and Spoke Help IT and SRE Teams Proactively Secure the Software Supply Chain with Real-Time, Cross-Department Visibility & Team Activation for Security Incidents Sunnyvale, CA and San Diego, CA, May 26, 2022 — (swampUP 2022) – JFrog Ltd. (“JFrog”) (NASDAQ: FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog DevOps […]