The emergence of AI has brought endless possibilities and innovative opportunities in today’s ever-changing, fast-paced technology landscape. AI is helping development teams produce software significantly faster than ever before. AI-enabled DevSecOps tools can automatically scan code, infrastructure and other configurations for security issues throughout development, accelerating the overall process. The introduction of agentic AI into the software […]
GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own App — and It’s More Than a Coding Assistant
GitHub has launched a standalone Copilot desktop app in technical preview, moving beyond the IDE to introduce a dedicated cockpit for agentic development. The app enables developers to manage parallel, isolated agent sessions directly from GitHub issues, while introducing “Agent Merge”—a feature that autonomously fixes CI failures and handles code reviews to streamline the entire PR lifecycle.
The Great Decoupling: Scaling the Outer Loop for the Agentic Era
The “Inner Loop” of software development—the iterative cycle of writing, building, and debugging code—has just broken the sound barrier. With the emergence of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot Workspace, the developer experience has undergone a fundamental shift. Developers are no longer merely tab-completing snippets; they are orchestrating agents that generate entire […]
Former GitHub CEO Bets $60M That Developer Tools Need a Factory Reset for the AI Age
Thomas Dohmke’s new company, Entire, aims to redefine the software development lifecycle for AI-driven coding by focusing on post-code generation processes. With a $60 million seed round, Entire’s first product, Checkpoints, enhances visibility into AI-generated code, addressing the challenges of governance and review for DevOps teams.
Tabnine Adds Agents Capable of Automating Workflows to AI Coding Platform
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.
Why Continuous Integration Matters More Than Ever
Continuous Integration is now essential to modern DevOps, automating testing and deployment to deliver faster, higher-quality software with less risk and stronger team collaboration.
Getting More Out of GitHub With Advanced Product Requirements
There are plenty of challenges throughout the software development lifecycle, but one that has proven to be a make-it-or-break-it for projects is requirements management. Requirements engineering is more than simply listing desired features. It is a comprehensive approach to capturing, organizing and evolving project specifications throughout development. Yet this segment of the development process is […]
How Observability and Explainability Benefit the SDLC
Software systems require continual modification to meet changing requirements, address errors, improve performance and enhance reliability. Yet, maintaining and modifying complex and distributed software systems as they change and grow can present challenges. When systems are designed with observability and explainability in mind, adapting, expanding and troubleshooting software becomes easier and more effective. Observability refers […]
The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar with the DevOps infinity loop: This is an ideal workflow where every stage of the software development life cycle feeds into the next. […]
Best of 2021 – Software Developer Life Cycle
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eleventh in our series of the Best of 2021.