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Microsoft Copilot Studio Brings Computer-Using Agents to the Enterprise

For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor portals, and proprietary line-of-business platforms rarely offer APIs. That means someone, usually a human, ends up clicking through screens, entering data, and completing transactions by hand. Microsoft has a direct answer to that problem. Computer use in Microsoft Copilot Studio is now generally available, with expanded availability rolling out to all commercial geographies in Microsoft Power Platform. What Computer-Using Agents Actually Do The simplest way to think about it: computer use gives an agent the same tools a person has — a browser, a screen, a keyboard, and the ability to read what’s on the page and take the next logical step. That’s a meaningful shift. Most automation tools rely on brittle, selector-based scripts that break the moment a UI changes. Instead, the computer uses a tool t...
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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others. The ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay scale being offered. We’re also committed to providing additional insights into the state of the DevOps job market. In the meantime, for your consideration. Dice Booz Allen Hamilton Chantilly, VA DevOps Engineer $77,600 to $176,000 Lockheed Martin Corporation Herndon, VA DevOps Engineer $85,500 to $150,765 AeroVironment Annapolis, MD DevOps Engi...
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GitLab Act 2: Still an Open Book

When GitLab CEO Bill Staples announced “Act 2” a few days ago , most of the headlines focused on the obvious stuff. Layoffs. Restructuring. Geographic pullbacks. AI agents. Efficiency. The usual collection of terms that now seem mandatory whenever a software company announces its plans for the agentic era. But I think the real story is bigger than that. The real question is whether GitLab can reinvent itself for the next era of software development without losing the cultural infrastructure that made it one of the defining companies of the DevOps movement in the first place. That may sound dramatic, but for those of us who have watched GitLab since its earliest days, this is not just another software company making another AI pivot. GitLab was different. It represented something different. And judging by the reactions from customers, former employees and practitioners across the industry, people instinctively understand that something more significant is happening here. To understa...
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Why DevOps Is Critical for Modern Business Resilience

Today’s business world operates in a state of constant change. What the customer wants to buy changes quickly, new competitors appear overnight, and cyber threats are changing faster than ever. In this world, the concept of “resilience,” the ability to adapt, to overcome, and to continue to create value for the enterprise despite the changes, has become a top-level imperative for cybersecurity and technology executives. DevOps, the cultural and technical movement to unify the software development and operations disciplines, has come of age as a key enabler of business resilience. Bridging the Dev and Ops Divide: A Culture of Resilience Before DevOps, many organizations were stuck in a cycle of slow releases and siloed teams. Developers would work in isolation for months before handing code off to QA and operations teams for deployment. This adversarial approach to software development hindered innovation within organizations such as Amazon, Netflix, and Google until they adopted a De...
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Capturing Real API Behavior for Regression Testing: Architecture and Implementation

Teams spend a lot of time on regression testing . They write scripts to confirm that existing functionality still works after changes. Bugs still escape to production anyway. Not because the tests are poorly written, but because they test assumptions about how the system should behave, not observations of how it actually behaves.   A regression test checks what a developer thinks will happen. Production reveals what actually happens. That gap is where escapes live. When a microservice changes its response format slightly, the test might still pass because it checks the expected structure, not the actual structure real clients use. When an integration point has undocumented implicit behavior, the test misses it. When two services interact in a timing pattern that only appears under load, the test does not catch it because it runs in isolation.   Traditional regression testing writes test cases as predictions. A better approach captures what actually happens and tests against that. The...
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